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From: Jerry Hicks <wghhicks@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: password question
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Tom wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jerry Hicks wrote:
> 
> > >   What kind of passwords does AIX use?  If it DES, you're set.
> >
> > My guess would be Kerberos, considering its origin...
> 
>   Kerberos is an authentication scheme not a password encryption format
> (in fact, I believe that Kerberos even uses DES for its internal password
> lists, but that is another matter).
> 
> Tom

Yeah, but doesn't the authentication scheme determine the encryption
policy?