I also wonder if they truly mean password hashes, as in the ancient RACF password hash methods, or the more commonly used encryption method of securing passwords or to be more technically correct, user ids.
-- Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity - Unknown On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In > <cakspfostlizlcvvj1v1hzcxow3n8slsm8gfdu+u4buwawhl...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 03/18/2014 > at 09:19 AM, Jose Munoz <[email protected]> said: > > >Someone can comment on it, I received an email from an Open System > >college arguing that mainframe is very weak...please help me to > >answer it: > > The Devil is in the details. Strip the BS and what they are saying is > that if you ignore the standard security recommendations for MVS then > you will have security problems. > > >oclHashcat v1.20 support added to crack RACF (IBM mainframe) hashes > > That presumes read access to it. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
