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Re: Catastrophic failure of Strip password generation.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Heinlein)
Wed Apr 11 18:02:32 2001

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Date:         Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:40:55 +0200
Reply-To: Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein@GMX.NET>
From: Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein@GMX.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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--On Dienstag, 10. April 2001 20:05 Uhr +0200 Thomas Roessler
<roessler@DOES-NOT-EXIST.ORG> wrote:

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> Executive summary: If you have ever used Strip for the Palm to
> generate your passwords, change them.  Change them NOW.

Hi,

I think you forgot to mention the attacker has to know you generated
the passwords with Strip...

Not likely in many cases, I think.

Bye,
Andreas

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