Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:49:04 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DES & MD5? Message-ID: <5182.929429344@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:43:23 MDT." <199906150643.AAA90605@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199906150643.AAA90605@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <19990615025002.24925.rocketmail@web105.yahoomail.com> >Holtor writes: >: Hello guys. I've been using DES on all my servers >: but i'm thinking of converting to MD5 since it >: seems to be more secure? > >Are you using yp? If not, then there likely isn't much difference >between the two. MD5 was used as a replacement for DES when the des >routines were export controlled. Since no one but root can grab the >encrypted passwords, you'll gain nothing by moving from one to the >other. Uhm, sorry Warner, but that is not true. A brute force attack on MD5 is many orders of magnitude slower than on DES. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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