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To: Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net>
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Subject: Re: DES & MD5?
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 16 Jun 1999 09:14:22 +0200
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Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net> 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.

Of course it works. MD5 hashing is always available; DES hashing is optional.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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