[1597] in bugtraq
Re: passwd hashing algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Mon Apr 24 11:56:14 1995
From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
To: pcl@foo.oucs.ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland)
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 16:09:04 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9504201129.AA24458@foo.oucs.ox.ac.uk> from "Paul C Leyland" at Apr 20, 95 12:29:46 pm
> Unfortunately, I've lost my re-discovery of the OSF/1 bigcrypt()
> algorithm. DEC are *very* reticent about letting details out and its
> documentation is virtually non-existent. However, examination of the
> contents of /tcb/files/auth/p/pcl as I changed my password, together
> with a few astute guesses, was all that were required.
>
> If I find the bigcrypt() code again, I'll post it.
>
> Paul
You can find a GPLed bigcrypt implementation in the source of Samba,
see osf1_bigcrypt() in password.c. Samba is available from
ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/samba-1.9.11.tar.gz
Hope this helps.
-- Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxa.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
