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Re: A question about passwords and login/authentication

Subject: Re: A question about passwords and login/authentication
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:47:10 -0800
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:28:16AM +1100, Steffen Kluge wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:53 +0100, Pavol Luptak wrote:
Try blowfish instead MD5

I feel a bit uneasy about using symmetric ciphers (like DES or blowfish)
for password encryption. I'm not a crypto guy, but doesn't this bring
about the whole bloody key management can of worms?

No, because the cipher isn't used to *encrypt* the password, it's used
to *hash* the password.  


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