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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: password aging (from worm discussion)
Message-ID: <10895@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 28 Nov 88 20:54:41 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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The advantage of password-hiding is that it prevents fishing for passwords.
That is, it establishes a difference between trying to crack my password
(which I hope you can't do) and trying to find *any* password on a system.