Re: Password encryption
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 22:24, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Pann McCuaig (pann@ourmanpann.com) wrote:
>
> > What do you call "discovering" a weak password using the tools created
> > for that purpose?
>
> It is most certainly not decryption. We usually call it "cracking",
> or more specifically, "brute-force cracking".
Please define decryption for me. In my state of ignorance I would have
thought a simple definition would be "recovering plaintext from
ciphertext" and wouldn't speak to method.
Cheers,
Pann
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