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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: Dual-personality crypt(3)!! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 95 15:54:46 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 06:59:43 -0800
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>What do you think?
>
>I have modified the DES crypt(3) to do an MD5 (exportable-style
>"encryption" if the first three characters are "$1$". (Someone (PHK?)
>gave me the idea _ages_ ago.) This will allow folks to upgrade their
>machines to DES encryption without having to fix all the user passwords
>in master.passwd.
>
>If you want to test it - I'll give you a copy. I am testing it myself,
>and will commit it in a day or two if no-one objects?

   Hmmm... what if my DES password legitimately starts with "$1$"? Wouldn't it
be better to just try the DES password and if that fails (doesn't match), then
try using MD5?

-DG