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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] passtokey question
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:13:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF86162.9000900@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021212055735.A2709@unicorn.math.spbu.ru>

Roman V. Shaposhnick wrote:

>On the similar note, why did you chose to re-encode parts of t with
>a previous key, and not some other way of stuffing long passwords
>into 7bytes long DES key ?
>
This was probably done to reduce the the possibility that the
key would be limited to typeable/printable ASCII.  Any limit
of the keyspace will make brute forcing easier.







  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-12 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-12  2:57 Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-12-12 10:13 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2002-12-12  3:25 presotto
2002-12-12  5:14 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
2002-12-12 14:06 presotto

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