Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I was looking at the readme for the glibc 2 upgrade package of Slackware
> 4.0 and it says that crypt is built with md5 and not DES. I am not
> too familiar with encryption, but the Volkerding stated this because
> of export restrictions. Basically it sounds as if Slackware crypt, and
> I imagine other distributions, are using a weakened crypt.
> He further stated that the DES encryption could
> be obtained from MIT's ftp site.
>
> ftp://eddi.mit.edu in /pub/gnu
>
> I checked their ftp site and I found the
> tar ball for the DES encryption, but did not experiment with it.
>
> Anyone out there using DES crypt or a more powerful encryption on their
> system?
My GnuDIP application once used the unix crypt() witch I think is about
40bit. I recently swiched all my authentication algorithms to use a MD5
based scheme, so that other os's would be able to make a client application
easier. I am pretty sure the MD5 is a stronger (and more flexable)
encryption algorithm. It is also not restricted by any export laws that I
am aware of.
>
>
> brian
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