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Subject: Re:  Security...
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Date: Thu, 7-Jul-83 02:50:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  7 02:50:52 1983
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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) 

If the encrypted text is the same, then under the modified-DES scheme
I am sure the plaintext is also the same.  However, the "salt" helps
a lot since usually the same plaintext password for different users
would encrypt to different salted text.

Now, if two people are SUSPECTED of having the same password (say, a
husband and wife), then on that assumption it will be much easier to
break the encryption even though different salts were used.