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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
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: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 03:35:24 -0700
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To: Curt Sampson <curt@cynic.portal.ca>
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Curt Sampson wrote:
> Yes. Get a source licence for BSDI and replace the crypt() stuff
> in their libraries and shared libraries with FreeBSD's crypt()
> stuff. You'll also have to recompile any statically linked binaries.

Uhhhhhhhhh.  Why not simply install the DES distribution?
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project