Password security
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- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 22 (11) , 594-597
Abstract
This paper describes the history of the design of the password security scheme on a remotely accessed time-sharing system. The present design was the result of countering observed attempts to penetrate the system. The result is a compromise between extreme security and ease of use.Keywords
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- The UNIX time-sharing systemCommunications of the ACM, 1974