Muffett on Passwords
In “OpenSolaris, Pluggable Crypt, and the SunMD5 Password Hash Algorithm,” Alec Muffett writes:
Several years ago now, Darren Moffat, Casper Dik and I started swapping e-mail about how pathetic it was to still be using the traditional 8-character-password unix crypt() routine in Solaris, and how we could architect something to be much better.
You’d have to be smoking Crack to think you could do better.
Huh? I must not be parsing correctly. You entry reads like you think Muffet must be on crack to think he could do better than crypt(3)…
DOH!
OK, joke was too subtle.
@Ryan: Naw, he’s just not as good as me at being funny.
“Obviously.”