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Re: Encryption is like a locked suitcase

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Aug 21 19:13:56 1998

Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:55:01 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@weathership.homeport.org>
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>, John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v04003a0ab2037dc264c3@[198.115.179.81]>; from Vin McLellan on Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 04:28:39PM -0400

On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 04:28:39PM -0400, Vin McLellan wrote:

| 	Remote access passwords would be treasures that might be readily
| available from temp and swap files, captured in snapshots off many
| businessmen's machines.

	Aww, cmon, Microsoft stores these in its easy to access .pwl
files in a form that barely counts as encryption.  Reading swap files?

Where do you want to go today?

Try http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/pwl.txt

Adam

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