Hi,
I have a question about password encryption used by Linux (PAM I think).
Could somebody explain to me why it would be impossible to write a program
that will decrypt a password taken from the /etc/passwd file (or it's
shadow) using the inverse of the encryption algorithm? What *is* the
encryption algorithm used anyway?
If that isn't a challenge already, try to answer slowly in plain English (I
do have fair understanding of math).
TIA,
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