cordney* » brute-force http://cordney.com security, technology, life Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:16:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 [paper] On the security of Linux user passwords http://cordney.com/2008/04/25/paper-on-the-security-of-linux-user-passwords/ http://cordney.com/2008/04/25/paper-on-the-security-of-linux-user-passwords/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:52:50 +0000 cordney* http://cordney.com/?p=58 This is a paper I wrote for one of my courses at university.

From the abstract:
In this paper we determine the security of user passwords on Linux
based operating systems. We have a look at the two basic security mech-
anisms passwords are created and stored using a reference Linux distri-
bution, locate common attack vectors and propose available countermea-
sures.

link to paper

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