Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:53:43 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: iang@systemics.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crypt() equiv? Message-ID: <199901190653.WAA09535@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901181038500.2072-100000@misery.sdf.com> from Tom at "Jan 18, 99 10:41:43 am"
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Tom writes: > By default, crypt() on FreeBSD is MD5, and is exportable. I'm more > interested in the standard Unix DES crypt() though. The strange thing is > that standard DES crypt() is much easier to brute force than MD5 crypt(), > but the DES crypt() is export controlled... This is getting off topic a bit, but the reason is that DES is an encryption algorithm (ie, it's reversable) wheras MD5 is only a hashing algorithm (ie, if you can reverse it then some people would be very interested to see how you do it :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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