From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 28 13:58:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id BC5BA14CBF; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931C61CD8C8; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Cc: Mark Murray , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crypto updates coming! In-Reply-To: <37C84A26.4FC7EF7E@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > Something that came up recently, both for me and someone else on the list > is the ability to have DES libs in the system and still use MD5 passwords > as the default. I have no idea how difficult this would be to do, but if > someone has it in mind here's another vote in favor. The replacement libcrypt code at http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~kkennawa/crypt-990725.tar.gz allows this (and more), the only major downside is that it doesn't allow statically-linked binaries to use external crypt() modules (blowfish, etc). Traditional-format MD5 and DES are built-in so should work fine when statically-linked. I haven't had much feedback on this code so would like to hear how well it works for people. Unfortunately I can't correct any bugs at the moment until I get my computer (which is at this moment being unloaded from a plane at the airport :-) set up and back on the net, but I tested it a fair bit myself back in Australia. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message