topic Re: Security in Operating System - HP-UX

Security

Raghava Reddy — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:55:59 GMT

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Wodisch — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:05:04 GMT

Actually "security by obscurity" does not work well!

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Martin Johnson — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:08:35 GMT

Yes, your post is definately secure.

:-)
Marty

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harry d brown jr — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:31:46 GMT

Great encryption, impressive compression AND really fast!

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Wodisch — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:32:51 GMT

Sometimes I do believe that Dan or someone from his team delivers threads like this one for us to have fun!

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doug hosking — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:04:59 GMT

I gather from the above that your question has something to do with the combination of security and white box testing. Can you be a bit more specific in your request?

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Wodisch — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:40:19 GMT

Doug, like the description above?

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Wodisch — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:40:38 GMT

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Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:41:38 GMT

The basic security setup of the system starts from "hiding" the password entries in /etc/passwd file like your message.

-Sri

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Wodisch — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:42:06 GMT

Funny, the empty reply was posted first of the three ones...

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Anil C. Sedha — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:42:20 GMT

This is the most secure message i have ever seen.

i doubt the biggest of hackers will be able to unencode this message.

:-)

Regards,
Anil

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Shannon Petry — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:03:07 GMT

I just want to know how the helk he got the invisible font to work? I always get lost trying to type my messages with it ;(

Shannon

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John Poff — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:09:38 GMT

Actually, I think I have figured out the message.

If you look at the source for the HTML for this message, you'll see that the actual text of his message consists of two lines. The first line has three tab characters, and the second line has four tab characters followed by two spaces. What could the tabs and spaces represent?

Let's guess that they stand for dashes and dots respectively, and so our friend is trying to send us a message in Morse code. Letting the tabs stand for dashes and the spaces stand for dots, we have:

---
----..

Using a standard Morse code table, this translates to:

O (----)
T8 (-) (---..)

which I take to stand for, Off Topic and a pair of eyes watching us. ;)

JP

Get enough caffeine and refined sugar in my blood and I can figure out just about anything! (or make up an answer!)