| From: | "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind Glomsrd), Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Sverre H(dot) Huseby" <sverrehu(at)online(dot)no>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords. |
| Date: | 2000-05-06 18:26:09 |
| Message-ID: | 00050614293701.00215@comptechnews |
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On Sat, 06 May 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
>
> > FreeBSD uses MD5 by default since at least ver 2.2, possibly
> > earlier.
>
> So does Red Hat Linux, and probably Linux distributions as well.
>
> --
> Trond Eivind Glomsrd
> Red Hat, Inc.
There is some good information about crypt and MD5 at www.php.net in the
documentation: String Functions/crypt
http://www.php.net/manual/function.crypt.php
It explains that many systems have updated crypt() to use MD5 and how to
check what hash algorithm your system's crypt() actually uses.
--
Robert B. Easter
reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com
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