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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.pbi.net!blush.jps.net!usenet From: "Jian L. Zhen" <jlz@isli.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.security.unix Subject: how MD5 works Date: 22 Apr 1997 03:39:33 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 17 Message-ID: <01bc4ecf$0b2c9840$2fa56bc7@jasmin> NNTP-Posting-Host: istk-port40.jps.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39484 comp.security.unix:33834 Hi all I got a question here that I am sure some of you encryption experts can answer my question is about the algorithm used in generating passwds in freebsd, as I understand it, MD5 is the hash function used here. I read thru some material for MD5 and it seems that MD5, as a one-way hash function, will generate the same results with the same input everytime. am I correct? is there anything in algorithm that might make the result variable each time? thanks everyone! Jian