From: ChrisKaelin <ck.stonedragon@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T03:00:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Decode password

On 27 Apr., 11:06, chris.hulb...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thats impossible, basically. A hash is a one-way function.
> You could brute force it if you wanted, good luck waiting for
> eternity...
>

What a luck for us unix-administrators ;-)

That's why unix-passwords are so safe since many years. Even if
someone else than root can read (/etc/shadow) you can only brute-force
that stuff and that can take some time, because even if the password
is very short, the hash always is at least 13 characters long...