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Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by kens on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:12PM (#16074131)
I should mention that I didn't want to leak someone's actual password (even if it's 40 years old), so I perturbed the passwords slightly. The real password doesn't exactly end in AKAY, so it's not Alan Kay. (Apologies for throwing cold water on your clever idea.)
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Re:Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on... by pieguy on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:38AM (#16077188)
There's a decent chance the passwords you found aren't the actual passwords either, considering how easy it is to generate collisions for the hash function.
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