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Re: [COLD] An alternative to common crypt() handling.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Jul 24 18:09:11 1996 )

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:42:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com>
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960724162556.28860B-100000@btech.puremagic.com>

On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Brad Roberts wrote:
> All well and good.. but how does this fix the cross platform 
> 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