[Cryptography] Ken Thompson's password
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Thu Oct 10 10:30:54 EDT 2019
If you do not read Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/news),
you might have missed this;
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html
"Somewhere around 2014 I found an /etc/passwd file in some dumps of the BSD 3 source tree, containing passwords of all the old timers such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian W. Kernighan, Steve Bourne and Bill Joy.
Since the DES-based crypt(3) algorithm used for these hashes is well known
"...
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