Dear Friends,
I do not know exactly how MD5 algorithm works. But, most of these algorithms
are really irreversible, modulo a small set of keys, which can hardly be obtained, for
I am sure that the same is stored nowhere on the machine.
But, most of these algorithms were dependant on the non-provanility of the NP
stature of prime decomposition; but I am not sure after the recent polynomial time
algorithm for primes from IIT Kanpur, its effects on these algorithms. Please can
someone help.
Thanking you,
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:17:37AM +0530, Manas Laha wrote:
--->suvoraj biswas wrote:
--->>
--->> If the hacker be good in GNU/C\C++ programming, and knows the MD5
--->> algorithm then he can easily create a decryption program and so
--->> easily can get the root password. So, in that sense, GRUB is also
--->> insecure.So, I think there should be several encryption algorithms
--->> and the installer should ask the user to choose from this
--->> list.Then the hacker can't guess which decryption technique to
--->> use, though it is very troublesome. Isn't it?
--->> Any comments plz!!
--->> -Suvoraj
--->
--->Most unlikely that the encryption algorithm will be reverse engineered
--->easily. These algorithms are designed to be hard to reverse. Which is
--->why, if you forget your password, even root cannot tell you what it was,
--->he can only give you a new password.
--->
--->- Manas Laha
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