[Year 12 IPM] Exam Post Mortem now online

[Luke]

Yea i think i know what you mean.
Password encryption is supposed to be near impossible to decrypt. That's why 
even administrators can't find out your password when it is lost. All he/she 
can do is set a new one.
You are right that the password is encrypted first then checked with the 
existing already encrypted password.

Luke Monty
Mooroolbark College

"Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1708.1132022038.3349.ipm at edulists.com.au...
> Mark Kelly wrote:
>> Hi Luke
>>
>> The question is ambiguous and vague though ... what does "features" 
>> really refer to, I wonder.  Features of WHAT?
>>
>> When it said "features that improve password security" I read the 
>> question as "keeping passwords secret"
>>
>> But I guess you can read it as "What is there in a password system that 
>> improves security of the system?" (e.g. encryption, aging of passwords, 
>> mandatory minimum lengths, prevention of the reuse of old passwords etc)
>
> Yeah - OK.  This doesn't make a whole heap of sense. I think *I* know what 
> I mean.  Let's forget the whole thing.
>
> -- 
> Mark Kelly
> McKinnon Secondary College
>