Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:40:54 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES & MD5? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906151637190.6474-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199906150704.BAA90853@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> : In reality of course, it's better to be safe and use strong password methods
> : even when they 'should' not be needed by virtue of the password file being
> : hidden.
>
> This is of course true.
>
> However, IIRC, the pain to do this is high.
Where does it hurt? I can imagine if you were trying to share your password
files between e.g. Suns, but if you want to have MD5 passwords when you have
the DES sources installed it's just a simple hack to crypt.c AFAIK.
Kris
>
> Warner
>
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