From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 09:12:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01853 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 09:12:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01788 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 09:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-36.camalott.com [208.229.74.36] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28004; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:10:50 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06149; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:11:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:11:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805291611.LAA06149@detlev.UUCP> To: ckempf@enigami.com CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Cory Kempf on 29 May 1998 10:52:00 -0400) Subject: Re: MD5 v. DES? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there a discussion somewhere about the merits of MD5 v. DES? > E.g. what advantages one has over the other? In the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook55.html). But the Reader's Digest version is, MD5 is more secure and is exportable from the US. DES is the algorithm used on other Unix machines (to allow password sharing and NIS). Are there any issues with using the international version of DES in France? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message