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by monocasa 2773 days ago
You're not reversing anything first off, it looks like you're just call crypt(3) with every potential password since they put a five character cap on it. 600M or so combinations, so pretty trivial, but feels fun. I'm actually all for this assignment, it makes you feel all hacker typer.

Secondly, it's DES. DES hasn't been viable for almost two decades now.