CCHD@latvax8.lat.oz (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) (07/26/90)
Has anyone rewritten HPWD.MAR in a higher level language (preferably c)? There are two reasons for this - I would like to use it to hash passwords under Unix (I'm trying to make it more secure) and secondly, I'd like to crack passwords more rapidly :-) As part of our regular security checks, we run SYSUAF.DAT through a dictionary and expire all passwords that we guess. Currently on our 8700 it takes about 5 minutes per account, but on an idle RS/6000 it might be a little quicker! If noone has done it, I'll just do it myself, so comments about security are probably not appropriate, although I'd be happy to discuss this via e-mail. Huw Davies, Senior Systems Programmer, Computer Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia Phone: (03) 479-2515 International: +61 3 479-2515 ACSnet: cchd@latvax8.lat.oz BITnet: cchd@latvax8.lat.oz ARPA: cchd%latvax8.lat.oz@uunet.uu.net or cchd@latvax8.lat.oz.au on sites with latest nameservers UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!latvax8.lat.oz!cchd