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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:43:40 -0400
From:      Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>, "'Ryan Thompson'" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "'Bill Moran'" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   hash-password length relation (was: Password security)
Message-ID:  <1C4414A2-845C-11D6-887B-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <xzpbsa6f2ox.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Hi.

Spinning a bit off topic here, i was wondering..

Does the length of the encrypted password grow with the length of the=20
password?

A.

Le jeudi 20 juin 2002, =E0 10:24 AM, Dag-Erling Smorgrav a =E9crit :
>
> To repeat what I wrote in my previous mail: "By default, FreeBSD uses
> an MD5-based hash, and supports passwords of arbitrary length."


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