[Gllug] [OT] MySQL experts?

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Brazier [mailto:pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk]
> 
> > +-------------------+-----------+------------------+
> > | Host              | User      | Password         |
> > +-------------------+-----------+------------------+
> > | localhost         | root      | 375793302c0bf*** |
> > | eagle.admin.local | root      |                  |
> > | localhost         |           |                  |
> > | eagle.admin.local |           |                  |
> > | %                 | admin     | 675bd1463e544*** |
> > | %                 | superuser | 7e82afb618ffe*** |
> > | %                 | user      | 66dfb2963aff0*** |
> > +-------------------+-----------+------------------+
> > 
> > (I'm taking no chances on anyone running crack on
> > these passwords!)
> 
> I think you can actually connect to a MySQL database even if you only
> know the encrypted form of the passwords i.e. without having 
> to reverse
> the password encryption.
> So only 16^3 possibilities to try? ;)

Not in my version. I imagine it doing the de-encryption on the encrypted
password and coming up with some spectacular results. Can anyone remind me
of the technical term for crypto that gets un encrypted on the next
encryption (breathe).

Harry


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