[1581] in bugtraq
Re: passwd hashing algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Sill)
Sat Apr 22 16:59:04 1995
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:12:34 GMT
From: Dave Sill <de5@sws5.CTD.ORNL.GOV>
To: Charlie Watt <watt@sware.com>
Cc: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald), bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9504201234.AA09362@mordred.sware.com>
Charlie Watt <watt@sware.com>
>
>As you point out, a better cryptographic linkage between blocks would
>force the attacker to search the full password space for a given multiblock
>password rather than break it down into separate 8 byte searches. We will
>incoporate this into our next release. Thanks for the feedback.
Why not just use md5 instead?
-Dave
