Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!menageri From: menageri@mit-eddie.UUCP (The Menagerie) Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Unix encryption methods Message-ID: <3314@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 16:21:08 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3314 Posted: Sat Dec 15 16:21:08 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:33:20 EST Reply-To: menageri@mit-eddie.UUCP (The Menagerie) Distribution: net Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.crypt:254 net.unix-wizards:11071 Can anyone out there tell me how passwords are encoded on Unix? (4.2BSD at least, although if it is different on others, I'd be interested to see other algorithms) Please note that I am *NOT* trying to break the encryption, I just want to know specifically how it is done, so please don't flame at me about the possibility/impossibility of breaking it. Thanks in advance. greg uucp: !genrad!mit-eddie!menagerie arpa: greg@grape-nehi%mit-mc or g.mcmullan@mit-eecs%mit-mc us snail: 500 memorial drive cambridge, ma, 02139[-4326] (617) 225-8942