[techtalk] Re: Using Crack 5.0

[Kelly Lynn Martin]

On 4 Dec 1999 16:07:49 -0000, subb3 at attglobal.net said:

>Crack nor JR, tried anything on the application accounts. They tested
>only the user accounts. Is it because the encrypted password existed
>in the 2nd field? How does one test the integrity of the application
>accounts?

An account with an encrypted password like '!' or '*' cannot be logged 
into at all -- no password will hash to that.  Such an account poses
no integrity risk, at least not in the sense of password security.

Kelly

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