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Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Macpherson)
Tue Jun 4 18:59:15 1996

Date:         Tue, 4 Jun 1996 08:49:07 +0100
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Andrew Macpherson <Andrew.Macpherson.1248566@nortel.co.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  Message from Alan Brown on Tue, 04 Jun 96 16:21:17 +1100.

alan@manawatu.planet.org.nz said:
|  What about a fascist passwd program which refers to a dictionary and
| rejects "easy" passwords? Does such an animal exist?

http://www.northern.co.uk/~andrew/papers/netpas.html
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