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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.gtn.com!klicman.de!ora.de!bad From: bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: DES worses MD5 password file Message-ID: <DtvIvo.57@ora.de> Organization: O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag References: <4qhuas$m6o@news.idt.net> <4qs2ff$b1f@cynic.portal.ca> <4qtqme$h3k@innocence.interface-business.de> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:52:36 GMT Lines: 15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44311 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4191 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22568 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1186 In <4qtqme$h3k@innocence.interface-business.de> j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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. Where is the problem with the government? Perhaps you didn't notice that the international version of the 4.4-lite CD-ROM includes source for the password DES function. AFAIK both BSDI and NetBSD have no trouble exporting DES based password encryption. -- Christoph Badura O'Reilly/International Thomson Verlag