Password Security: A Case History

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

Interesting reading from 1978.... Unix used to use a World War II
US-Army cipher (M-209) for password encryption.

http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/password/password.pdf
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