Re: Passwd encryption
Richard Black (Richard.Black@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Thu, 26 Oct 1995 15:18:33 +0000
>
> I may have missed it. Why not use a non reversable checksum, say one
> of the many 64 or 128 bit versions of MD5, Snefru, etc?
>
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> Bill Broadley Broadley@math.ucdavis.edu UCD Math Sys-Admin
It *is* non-reversible. Its called crypt(3) and its a standard across all
flavours of unix and ought to stay that way.
Richard.