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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) 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: 1 Jul 1996 21:01:30 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4r9eba$pq9@helena.MT.net> References: <4qhuas$m6o@news.idt.net> <4qs2ff$b1f@cynic.portal.ca> <4qtqme$h3k@innocence.interface-business.de> <DtvIvo.57@ora.de> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44334 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4195 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22593 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1188 In article <DtvIvo.57@ora.de>, Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote: >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. If so it's an error since it's *NOT* supposed do. >AFAIK both BSDI and NetBSD have no trouble exporting DES based password >encryption. Then you don't know very well, since both BSDi and NetBSD don't export their DES password encryption. (At least on purpose) Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!