Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:29:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net> To: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES & MD5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9906142309300.19480-100000@phoenix.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <19990615025002.24925.rocketmail@web105.yahoomail.com>
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Holtor wrote: > > Hello guys. I've been using DES on all my servers > but i'm thinking of converting to MD5 since it > seems to be more secure? > The key space is much larger. If users were forced to require passwords at least nine characters in length that would make it tougher on password cracking programs. > I know that its not an easy change, probably even > an impossible one...can anyone point me in a good > direction? You might could change the name of crypt in libdes.a to something like crypt_des() and then hack crypt() to fall back to crypt_des() if it does not get fed a salt beginning with "$1$". > > Also any input on which is better and why would > be appreciated aswell. > > Thanks, > Holt > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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