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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) 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: 07 Jul 1996 18:59:14 -0400 Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 20 Message-ID: <el220inisal.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU> References: <4qhuas$m6o@news.idt.net> <4qs2ff$b1f@cynic.portal.ca> <4qtqme$h3k@innocence.interface-business.de> <DtvIvo.57@ora.de> <4r9eba$pq9@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.22/Emacs 19.30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:44540 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4261 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23020 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1224 nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) writes: > > In article <DtvIvo.57@ora.de>, Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote: > > > >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. Wrong. There is a special `foreign' version of crypt.c in 4.4-Lite that does not support decryption. This is what NetBSD uses. > Then you don't know very well, since both BSDi and NetBSD don't export > their DES password encryption. (At least on purpose) Wrong again.