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?
brian
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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