Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:42:13 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crypt Message-ID: <19990304224213.O22819@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <36DF5C67.EEA1F0B0@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:24:07PM -0500 References: <36DF5C67.EEA1F0B0@confusion.net>
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Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> wrote: > might be part of the problem. If anyone can either point me to the code > or (and this would make me very happy) tell me the mathematical formulas > on which one of these (or a more basic version of these) schemes works. MD5 Crypt is found in /usr/src/lib/libcrypt. DES is in the 'secure' distributions, which once you have them in your src tree, at /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypt. Not sure on the math right now. ;-) > but it would seem that it relates at least somewhat to FBSD. The final > question is which is really more secure, (Read: which should I use), MD5 I have heard that the MD5 library is more secure. Sorry I haven't answered all of your questions. Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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