Enlightened :-) Tnx Luck is my game ;-) Linux is my aim :) Dre -----Original Message----- From: Scott Courtney [mailto:courtney@4th.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:04 PM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] Password Encryption On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:38 pm, Claus Lund wrote:
Yup. Several different passwords could very well generate the same hashed string.
But the point of a hash algorithm is to make this possibility extremely unlikely. This is, in fact, a measure of the quality of the hash algorithm: How likely is it that two different input values can yield the same output? When that does happen, it is a hash collision. I say this for the benefit of the folks who asked the original question; I know that Claus knows this already. :-) Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------ -----------------------+------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them courtney@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) | PGP Public Key at http://4th.com/keys/courtney.pubkey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here