From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 23:02:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA26361 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA26356 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA02083; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Encryption Upgrade In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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