Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:18:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: mitayai@dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES vs MD5 Message-ID: <199605301918.VAA22577@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960530045427.1841A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> from Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe at "May 30, 96 04:59:50 am"
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As Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > convert my system from MD5 to DES (canada is an "export ok" > country) and i have NO clue how to begin and what the "price" will be > (it's a live system with a huge hunk o' users) Why do you wanna downgrade? Unless you're going to run NIS, or otherwise share encrypted passwords with DES-encrypting systems, i wouldn't do it. The downgrade however should work flawlessly if you're running -stable or -current, since the crypt(3) there is ``dual-personality'', i.e. it understands both forms of encrypted strings. The are distinguishable since the MD5 strings start with '$1$'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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