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From: levine@yoyo.org (Neil Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding DES after the fact
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:41:02 GMT
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On 13 Feb 1997 05:37:49 GMT, imb@percy.scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
wrote:
>
>It will not .. the DES code tests for a leading "$1$" in the encrypted
>password and, if found, reverts to the MD5 mode of validation,

How can it do this? Does it know the name of the crypt libraries to
look up ie to use libscrypt.xxx.xxx rather than libcrypt.xxx (which
will be sym-linked to the des lib).

Neil