Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> Interesting, this still seems...odd, but it should work, though I'm
> still skeptical of using a cipher versus a true one-way hash.
The normal Unix crypt(3) method uses a variant of DES to make a one-way
hash. Basically, you use the password as the key to encrypt a constant
string. That's been used for 30 years or so, and the only real weakness
I can recall hearing about it is that the key is too short (8 characters,
and if you use anything longer, only the 8 first characters are used).
/Bellman
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