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| Subject: | Re: A question about passwords and login/authentication |
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| Date: | Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:05:57 -0500 |
Steffen Kluge <kluge@fujitsu.com.au> writes:
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:53 +0100, Pavol Luptak wrote:Try blowfish instead MD5I 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?
Traditional Unix passwords encrypt a constant string using the password as the key, effectively turning a symmetric cipher into a one-way hash. ----ScottG.
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