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From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: Crack 4.1 patches for FBSD
To: coredump@nervosa.vendetta.com (goamatic)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 23:48:00 -0700 (PDT)
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> Here is beta 1 of the changes I have done to Crack 4.1 in order to 
> make it work with master.passwd (md5) style passwords. Patch from crack/

I wouldn't bother.  I spoke with Alec Moffet today at the USENIX security
conference.  Crack 5.0 is due out in 6 (or so) weeks.  He said it was a
complete rewrite, and he has substantually changed the handing of
different password file formats.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)