From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 20:43:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5F715146 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27951; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:42:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma027931; Thu, 4 Mar 99 22:42:48 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id WAA23454; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:42:14 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990304224213.O22819@winternet.com> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:42:13 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Laurence Berland , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crypt References: <36DF5C67.EEA1F0B0@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36DF5C67.EEA1F0B0@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 11:24:07PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence Berland wrote: > might be part of the problem. If anyone can either point me to the code > or (and this would make me very happy) tell me the mathematical formulas > on which one of these (or a more basic version of these) schemes works. MD5 Crypt is found in /usr/src/lib/libcrypt. DES is in the 'secure' distributions, which once you have them in your src tree, at /usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypt. Not sure on the math right now. ;-) > but it would seem that it relates at least somewhat to FBSD. The final > question is which is really more secure, (Read: which should I use), MD5 I have heard that the MD5 library is more secure. Sorry I haven't answered all of your questions. Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message