Found, a new rootkit

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:51 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Les Mikesell:
> >> How do you prevent re-use without keeping plain text or reversibly
> >> encrypted copies of the old ones laying around waiting to be
> >> stolen?
> 
> If you're storing *old* passwords that you don't want people to use
> again, would it matter if they're stored as plain text?  I would imagine
> that you could just add them to a banned passwords list.
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actually it would matter for a lot of reasons - and thus, it would never
be done which is why Les asked the question.

Craig