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Conference noted::hackers_v1

Title:-={ H A C K E R S }=-
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 03 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:680
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96.0. "using WRONG password on VMS" by SPRITE::OSMAN () Tue Feb 12 1985 20:21

I keep finding more and more appropriate notes files in which to show off this
nonsense !

   >======================================================================
   >  SPRITE::OSMAN                  The Joy of Lex              11-FEB-19
   >  Note #51             -< using WRONG password on vms >-          No r
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	>>======================================================================
	>>  SPRITE::OSMAN                Mathematics at DEC             9-JAN-19
	>>  Note #205.9              -< Cryptography problem >-
	>>----------------------------------------------------------------------

If you set your password to PATCHWORK, then you can alternatively log in
with WATCHWORD.

If you set your password to GEOLOGIST, then you can alternatively log in
with NEOLOGISM.

If you set your password to BLUNDERER, then you can alternatively log in
with PLUNDERED.

If you set your password to DENOUNCER, then you can alternatively log in
with RENOUNCED.
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96.1FKPK::KONINGWed Feb 13 1985 22:146
That figures.  VMS does XORs of 8 chars at a time to end up with a quadword,
which is then munged further.  So obviously any set of words that XOR to
the same quadword value are synonyms.  In each example you've changed
the first and 9th character, leaving the XOR of those two characters alone.

	Paul