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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!btnet-feed2!easynet-uk!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!easynet-cherry!usenet 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 Organization: [posted via] Easynet Group PLC Lines: 11 Message-ID: <33039840.203673@news.easynet.co.uk> References: <5dpuo6$fnk@pelican.unf.edu> <3300D7CD.66FA@mail.hqs.crc.com> <855812269.585845@percy.scgt.oz.au> Reply-To: levine@yoyo.org NNTP-Posting-Host: levine.easynet.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 X-easynet-cherry: 85587367117469.nnrp Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35663 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