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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 18:53:39 +1100 (EST)
From:      Rich Siggs <rich@goliath.spirit.net.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tom@uniserve.com
Subject:   Re: Q: exportable DES library & "DES How To" for 2.1-STABLE
Message-ID:  <199602200753.SAA01208@goliath.spirit.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <23028.824798241@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 19, 96 10:37:21 pm

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	Thanks to all who have so promptly replied so far..

> >   But 1.1 didn't use MD5 and you only got DES if you specifically 
> > installed it.  2.1 can use MD5 or DES.  Stock 1.1 used something different.

	Oh dear - looks like I'm "up shit creek" there then?
(I think that covers my obCDA "indecency"? Come 'n' get me ;)
What does 1.1 use then? Would there be _any_ chance of moving a 1.1 passwd
entry to 2.1, even perhaps pulling in the 1.1 encryption code?
  
> Uh..  Perhaps there's some confusion (on my part, most likely).  I
> thought he was talking about the *dual* encryption feature whereby MD5
> and DES keys would be recognised and proplerly decrypted even if they
> were mixed together in the same password file.  That didn't come until
> post-2.1.

	I feel the confusion's all mine & you're correct in that I was talking
of the dual encryption feature.. Which I now understand isn't in 2.1-STABLE.
  
> 					Jordan
Thanks Jordan,
Rich.
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