Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:42:39 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crypto code - an architectural proposal. Message-ID: <199506192042.WAA00321@grumble.grondar.za>
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> > If the state department has a problem (or potential problem) with the > > crypt(3) in libdescrypt, why is there _no_ problem with the MD5 crypt(3)? > > They are functionally equivalent. Was the MD5 version even vetted? > > MD5 cannot decrypt. I thought that was the point of crypt(3). "One-way trapdoor algorithm"? M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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