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  From: Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:15:57 +0930

RE: Linux knows too much

David,

> It doesn't store it in clear text. It most likely takes the 
> password you've
> entered, uses crypt or md5sum to encrypt it and then compares 

[andrew@test ~]$ echo "linux" | md5sum
5bb062356cddb5d2c0ef41eb2660cb06  -
[andrew@test ~]$ echo "LiNuX" | md5sum
c8d58815b7960cf9519f1e2cd59c04d6  -

They don't look similar to me :P

> it against the
> current password. It's most likely a horrid, mathematical 
> probability algorithm.

Fair enough- it could remember some strange maths result of the password last used...?

AG

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