Ars Technica: Forum cracks the vintage passwords of Ken Thompson and other Unix pioneers
Ars Technica: Forum cracks the vintage passwords of Ken Thompson and other Unix pioneers. “As one of the original versions of Unix, BSD is an ancient operating system. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it used what are, by today’s standards, strange, even ridiculous security. For one, the hashing function protecting passwords, though state of the art 40 years ago, is now trivial to crack. Stranger still, the password hashes of some BSD creators were included in publicly available source code. And then, there are the passwords people chose.”