RE: password

Jared,

This seems to be a 'brute force' dictionary based attack, as I believe the Oracle password is a one-way trapdoor (just as UNIX). I don't think this will be able to crack a strong password created from say a combination of the first characters of an arbitrary sentence.

John Kanagaraj
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:09 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: password
>
>
> Hmm...
>
> Well maybe you *can* crack oracle passwords.
>
> I've just ordered the full version of this product. ( $4, I don't
> think I need to bother the purchasing department ).
>
> I'll let you know how it works.
>
> Jared
>

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