old rumor brought to mind by:
...
The UNIX password, a more-formidable challenge, allows users to specify up
to 5,132,188,731,375,620 combinations of letters, numbers or symbols.
"The machine we had access to doesn't quite have enough computing power,"
Kedem acknowledged. "I think it would take us almost a year to break a
UNIX password outright.
...
was that our friends at the Fort long ago (like early 80's)
simply computed the entire UNIX password space, sorted it to
tape, and kept the index around for whenever it seemed useful
any confirming/disconfirming comments?
--dan
