From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 15 10:25:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5D014C18 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA06936; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:23:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Barrett Richardson Cc: Evren Yurtesen , Holtor , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES & MD5? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:12:33 EDT." Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:23:38 +0200 Message-ID: <6934.929467418@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I belive it works that way, but not the other way around, unless you have the DES kit installed. In message , 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