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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Encryption Upgrade
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

> I just realized that most of these files are exactly the same.
> /usr/src/gnu doesn't even exist on the system to upgrade.  Which of all
> these files are required to upgrade encryption, and which binaries need to
> be rebuilt (I assume perl, and crypt)

Note my assumption here:

> :I assume you want to migrate from MD5 to DES?

In this case, you just need to replace the libraries and you should be set
to go.  The DES libs understand MD5 so you shouldn't get stuck having to
reset all the passwords.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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