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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:42:25 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure?
Message-ID:  <19981116184225.20193@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <0qI4qUS00YUq09JbU0@andrew.cmu.edu>; from Thomas Valentino Crimi on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:06:56AM -0500
References:  <199811151758.JAA15108@apollo.backplane.com> <199811152257.PAA02868@usr05.primenet.com> <19981116073914.F969@internal> <0qI4qUS00YUq09JbU0@andrew.cmu.edu>

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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:06:56AM -0500, Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote:
>   And then we have md5 passwords, arguably broken, now, but orders of
> magnitudes better than DES.

Uhm - what do you mean by this statement?

I know of no data that indicate that 'MD5 used for passwords is arguably
broken' (and I wouldn't even consider it reasonable to say that normal MD5
is broken, but that is arguable :-)

Eivind.


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