Re: Is it possible to crack the BPCS Key logic?

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Shugarr,

In a message dated 10/8/00 11:35:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Shugarr@aol.com 
writes:

> I just watched a great episode of Double 007 and Bond was able to crack a 
>  super computer in 1 minute. It made me wonder on how to crack the BPCS 
>  security key logic. 
>  I've been working on BPCS for 8 years now and I've always had a curiosity 
on 
>  how to crack the Security key logic.  I know that it is stored in the 
*LDA, 
>  but there has to be a way that BPCS can be fooled.
>  
>  And for all the SSA employees reading this relax I'm just having fun 
thinking 
>  like James Bond.

Your note is a little _TOO_ innocent-sounding.  "Just having fun"?  Yeah, 
right.  It is quite easy to "crack the code" as you say, but I (and I 
certainly hope anybody else) would not have the audacity (nor the poor 
judgment) to post that methodology in a public forum such as this.  We've 
discussed similar issues on midrange-l regarding AS/400 security in general, 
and found them to be highly inappropriate.

Please refrain from future postings of this nature.  Another one will get you 
barred from the list.  This list is _NOT_ for the purpose of avoiding license 
fees.  Besides, if you haven't figured it out in eight years, you don't 
_deserve_ to...

Good Day,

Dean Asmussen
BPCS-L List Administrator
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"You could be a liar.  You could also be a member of congress.  But I repeat 
myself." -- Mark Twain
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