On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Pann McCuaig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created > > for that purpose? > > It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it "cracking", > or more specifically, "brute-force cracking".
Please define decryption for me. In my state of ignorance I would have thought a simple definition would be "recovering plaintext from ciphertext" and wouldn't speak to method. Cheers, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^