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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Crack problem with MD5 passwd file? Date: 21 May 1996 07:07:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4nrq2l$917@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nqkjk$76t@tatooine.vader.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chris@vader.org (Chris Dabrowski) wrote: > Crack v4.1f: The Password Cracker, (c) Alec D.E. Muffett, 1992 > Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with > standard. This could be due to byte ordering problems - see the > comments in Sources/conf.h If there is another reason for this, > edit the source to remove this assertion. Terminating... > Is the problem due to the international version using MD5 encryption whilst > the US one uses DES? The default encryption of FreeBSD is MD5-based (and thus believed to be even stronger than DES). Of course, that's not compatible with the rest of the world, but this doesn't hurt as long as you're not going to share encrypted passwords e.g. via NIS. DES versions are available to the world, and inside US, from different locations. If your crack is only intended for the local system (where you're using MD5 passwords), it should be run with the MD5 algorithm, of course. Maybe you need to remove the above check, since crack is apparently confused then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)