27 Mar
2000
27 Mar
'00
16:53
On Sun, Mar 26, Jedi/Sector One wrote:
Nowadays MD5 encrypted passwords is a must IMHO.
If it would work, yes. But there are some protocols which doesn't allows passwords longer then 8 characters (md5 cannot change this), and a lot of programs crashes with passwords longer 8 bytes. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.