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From: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: DES & MD5? 
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 
> I belive it works that way, but not the other way around, unless you
> have the DES kit installed.


	I believe you are right.  But with the DES kit, I still don't
	think it would work.  We have had this problem in the past with 
	upgrades...I can't remember though.

> 
> 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!
> 
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