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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!yama.mcc.ac.uk!viking.ucsalf.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.sys5.r4 Subject: Re: DES and MD5 passsword encryption Date: 28 Feb 1996 09:29:16 -0000 Organization: Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4h179c$6db@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960220183657.7144B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> <4gg9fc$l8t@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucsalf.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14644 comp.unix.sys5.r4:10799 In article <4gg9fc$l8t@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Default MD5 is believed to be a stronger encryption, but naturally, >the encrypted password strings are not exchangeable with machines >using another algorithm. I've installed FreeBSD 2.1R onto a machine that previously had Dell SVR4 v2.2 on it. I moved the encrypted passwords over from that system with no problems at all. Does that mean Dell also used md5? I'd be surprised. >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE -- Mark Powell - Senior Network Technician - Room: C806 Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 3376 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@ucsalf.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key) <A HREF="http://www.ucsalf.ac.uk/~mark/">Home Page</A>