30 Mar
2002
30 Mar
'02
5:45 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 05:28:29PM +0530, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
Plz tell me where I'm wrong:
Linux is open source --> The Code which encrypts the login password is freely available --> A Baddie looks at the code and finds out the algorithm --> cat /etc/passwd | grep root --> Voila! the baddie has root password.
Of course this does not happen How does Linux manage to be secure inspite of being open source?
Well, you probably haven't programmed, it looks.
It's not so simple. In fact, it's NOT AT ALL simple.
The encryption is one-way! There's no known algorithm that can get back the password for you.
hth.
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jaju