From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 07:55:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27010 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 07:55:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from enigami.com (enigami.com [208.140.182.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26998 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 07:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by enigami.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA24934 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:54:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07335; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:52:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ckempf@enigami.com) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MD5 v. DES? From: Cory Kempf Date: 29 May 1998 10:52:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no's message of "29 May 1998 14:33:51 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav ) writes: >Hostas Red writes: >Search for "MD5" in the freebsd-current archive. What has happened is >that your system has mistakenly switched to using MD5 passwords >instead of DES passwords. This problem was identified (and solved?) a >few days ago. Is there a discussion somewhere about the merits of MD5 v. DES? E.g. what advantages one has over the other? Thanks, +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message