-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: makepasswd: naive question
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:55:38 +0300
From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Tom Zych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Tom Zych wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>
>>We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd',
>>but how can we decrypt them ?
>
> You can't. It's a one-way trapdoor function. Wouldn't be much point
> in using it otherwise.
>
I guess that I missed something:
I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by makepassd,
and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root:
I guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them
in view to unprotect my ZiP floppies.
Can we do that ?
--
Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D.
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