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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding DES after the fact Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:00:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5entqi$tp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5dpuo6$fnk@pelican.unf.edu> <3300D7CD.66FA@mail.hqs.crc.com> <855812269.585845@percy.scgt.oz.au> <33039840.203673@news.easynet.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36029 levine@yoyo.org (Neil Levine) 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). No, it has a copy of the MD5 algorithm of its own. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)