From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 16 09:43:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06010 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05977 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:43:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA02321; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:42:28 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA12429; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:42:27 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981116184225.20193@follo.net> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:42:25 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Thomas Valentino Crimi Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? References: <199811151758.JAA15108@apollo.backplane.com> <199811152257.PAA02868@usr05.primenet.com> <19981116073914.F969@internal> <0qI4qUS00YUq09JbU0@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <0qI4qUS00YUq09JbU0@andrew.cmu.edu>; from Thomas Valentino Crimi on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:06:56AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message