On 3 September 2013 09:41, Costin Enache <e_cos...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The phrase clear text is already padded with spaces to a multiple of 8, but, > after encryption, the resulting hash is truncated to the length of the > original clear text, minus the padding. This leaves us with an incomplete DES > cipher text block at the end, if the last clear-text block was padded. This > means that, if for example the last block had one character (say 1=F1) padded > to a length of 8 with spaces (F14040.....), only the first byte of the > resulting DES cipher text will be stored. There are many clear-texts what > will generate the same byte on the first position when encrypted with DES. > Example: create user COSTIN with phrase Abcd1234Abcd1234a, then try to logon > with phrase Abcd1234Abcd1234X
I would think that should be APARable... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
