Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encryption Upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813230042.2059C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970813150207.28337B-100000@netrail.net>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > After looking at the libraries, I see that I'm moving from des to md5 - > from libdescrypt to libscrypt's. Yuck. This sucks. I recommend avoiding this if you can; all of your passwords will cease to function unless you can figure out a way to convert them to MD5 before you pull the swap. I realize that md5 is probably more secure, but md5->des is really a one-way street. Usually you need DES if you are doing any inter-system authentication, ie rsh. I understand tho if you're moving out of the US or some other similiar restriction. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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