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Linked List: April 30, 2006

Sunday, 30 April 2006

How Mac OS X Implements Password Authentication ★

Dave Dribin’s excellent analysis of how Mac OS X stores user account passwords on disk. In short: quite poorly up through 10.2, better in 10.3, and pretty well as of 10.4 — but not as well as OpenBSD does. See also his previous coverage.

(Via Rentzsch’s bookmarks.)

Sandbox 2.0 ★

New version of Michael Watson’s GUI utility for managing Mac OS X 10.4’s access control lists.