1993-11-18 - Re: hohocon

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: “Alan (Gesture Man) Wexelblat” <wex@media.mit.edu>
Message Hash: b106740f956fab7cde43e789a98e38feba66af5e02489ce2cefd14a522f48a9a
Message ID: <9311181756.AA12723@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Reply To: <9311181717.AA22357@media.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1993-11-18 17:57:11 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 09:57:11 PST

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 09:57:11 PST
To: "Alan (Gesture Man) Wexelblat" <wex@media.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: hohocon
In-Reply-To: <9311181717.AA22357@media.mit.edu>
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> Now if I could just figure out a simple way to do this on UNIX...

This exists.  It is called S/KEY, and you can retreive this via
anonymous ftp from thumper.bellcore.com, somewhere...

It uses MD4 as a one-way hash to generate a series of pseudorandom
words.  It's a neat system.

-derek

         Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, G MIT Media Laboratory
     Secretary, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
         PGP key available from pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu
            warlord@MIT.EDU       PP-ASEL        N1NWH

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• 1993-11-18 (Thu, 18 Nov 93 08:56:30 PST) - Re: hohocon - hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal Finney)
  • 1993-11-18 (Thu, 18 Nov 93 09:21:29 PST) - hohocon - “Alan (Gesture Man) Wexelblat” <wex@media.mit.edu>
    • 1993-11-18 (Thu, 18 Nov 93 09:57:11 PST) - Re: hohocon - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
    • 1993-11-18 (Thu, 18 Nov 93 10:06:32 PST) - List of one-shot passwords - Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
      • 1993-11-18 (Thu, 18 Nov 93 10:21:31 PST) - Re: List of one-shot passwords - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
  • 1993-11-19 (Thu, 18 Nov 93 19:21:42 PST) - Re: hohocon - sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)