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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] An alternative to common crypt() handling.</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Jul 24 18:09:11 1996
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:42:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brandon Gillespie &lt;brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com&gt;
To: Brad Roberts &lt;braddr@puremagic.com&gt;
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;Pine.LNX.3.91.960724162556.28860B-100000@btech.puremagic.com&gt;

On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Brad Roberts wrote:
&gt; All well and good.. but how does this fix the cross platform 
&gt; transportability  of the still encrypted passwords?

It doesnt, I just came up with this while thinking about crypt() in 
general :)  From what I can tell, MD5 should be ok to distribute; I'm 
waiting to hear back from RSA.  I'd like to hear more about SHA-1..

-Brandon
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