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Re: [SLE] DES vs. MD5 passwords
- From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 20:08:44 +0200
- Message-id: <20030603180844.GA29747@xxxxxxx>
On Tue, Jun 03, David Krider wrote:
> I was just wondering why SuSE defaults to using "plain old" DES
> encryption for passwords, instead of MD5, like most other distros. I'm
Because there are much more systems in the world than Linux which do
not understand MD5 or blowfish encrypted passwords. There are also
some protocols which do not work with passwords longer 8 characters
(for example SecureRPC needed for NIS+). And at least, there are
still some applications which crashes with MD5 passwords (but I saw
the last one about one year ago).
Thorsten
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SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg
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> I was just wondering why SuSE defaults to using "plain old" DES
> encryption for passwords, instead of MD5, like most other distros. I'm
Because there are much more systems in the world than Linux which do
not understand MD5 or blowfish encrypted passwords. There are also
some protocols which do not work with passwords longer 8 characters
(for example SecureRPC needed for NIS+). And at least, there are
still some applications which crashes with MD5 passwords (but I saw
the last one about one year ago).
Thorsten
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Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx
SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg
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