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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:49:09 -0400
From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@...hershed.org>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] PolyPassHash is broken

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On 09/14/2014 06:05 PM, Justin Cappos wrote:
> Will any hashing scheme protect an admin account that chooses
> 'password' or 'abc123' as their password?  (At least PPH protects
> thresholdless accounts even with these horrid passwords.)

Actually, I logged into a system a couple of weeks ago as root, using
"password" as the password, which I guessed out of desperation because
I needed access and the guy who set it up was not available.  There is
simply no defense against such admins :-)

Bill
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