Subject: Re: questions about netbsd
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/09/2003 21:18:23
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:45:21PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> such as the blowfish password algorithm?
> > The passwd algortithms are not part of the kernel,
> 
> Right.
> 
> > NetBSD [...] supports MD5 (in addidition to the historical 3DES).
> 
> The historical algorithm is DES-based, not 3DES-based.  It does use
> multiple iterations of DES, in a manner very vaguely reminiscent of
> 3DES, but it's not really fair to call it 3DES-based.  (It's also a
> slightly mutated DES.)

OK, thanks for the clarification :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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