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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: DES worses MD5 password file Date: 27 Jun 1996 11:18:38 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4qtqme$h3k@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4qhuas$m6o@news.idt.net> <4qs2ff$b1f@cynic.portal.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44150 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4162 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22263 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1171 curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote: > I think this is a good argument for using the old, crummy Unix DES > in password files until you're absolutely sure that the system > users are residing on is going to be the last one they'll ever > reside on. Convince your government(s) about this first. Remember that it hasn't really been the stronger MD5 algorithm alone that forced FreeBSD to pick a non-DES password encryption algorithm in the first place, but rather the braindead policy of the US government. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j