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To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: Crack 4.1 patches for FBSD 
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:28:24 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199607260648.XAA12470@relay.nuxi.com>, "David E. O'Brien" writes:
>> 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.

Any news on any attacks on our MD5 based passwords ?

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