Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:23:38 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES & MD5? Message-ID: <6934.929467418@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:12:33 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9906151306060.8046-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
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I belive it works that way, but not the other way around, unless you have the DES kit installed. In message <Pine.BSF.4.01.9906151306060.8046-100000@phoenix.aye.net>, Barrett R ichardson writes: > > >Some of my colleagues here claimed they dropped an MD5 master.passwd >file onto a machine on which a DES master.passwd had previously been >and they said it worked. I didn't believe them at the time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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