While not wanting to buy into anyone's flame-war...
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:22:43PM +, Tamer Hassan wrote:
> My system uses MD5 (blowfish) and 3DES (Triple DES). Do not say that
MD5 != blowfish.
MD5 (Message Digest 5) is a secure hash algorithm invented by Ron Rivest
(The R in RSA). As
>By itself, pretty much every piece of a security program is insecure.
Hrm, is that a joke?
>You claim
>to be smart enough to make such a claim yet you don't know how to teach your
>sytem to crypt using libraries other than the defaults.
My system uses MD5 (blowfish) and 3DES (Triple DES). Do n
> -Original Message-
> From: Tamer Hassan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 11:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: vpopmail lacks authentication security
>
> Sorry, I hate to do this.
If you didn't hat
Sorry, I hate to do this.
I later posted to the list about the fact that vpopmail only uses DES. Matt
Simerson said "it is silly to say that DES is insecure" and I disagreed. He
then sent me a hashed password string betting me to crack it, and it turned
out to be a BSD MD5 (what an iodiot).
No
