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addendum to passwd.real bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue May 15 19:59:44 1990

Date: Tue, 15 May 90 19:59:31 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In article <SHEP.90May15193446@allspice.lcs.mit.edu>,
shep@allspice.lcs.mit.edu (Tim Shepard) writes:
|> 
|> We posted a partial retraction to that posting about a day later.
|> 
|> It is true that the salt depends only on the PID, but all 4096
|> salts are still possible.  Our reasoning in the second paragraph
|> was flawed.  Without the second paragraph, the third paragraph is
|> irrelevant.
|> 
|> 			-Tim Shepard
|> 			 shep@lcs.mit.edu

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