While not wanting to buy into anyone's flame-war...
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:22:43PM +0000, 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 a hash, it is one-way only - there is no way to get
the cleartext from the hash. MD5 is described in RFC 1321.
Blowfish is a symetric cypher invented by Bruce Schnider, or
Counterpane. It is the basis of twofish, which was Schnider's AES
candidate (which lost out to rhindael (sp?)).
Most system libraries use DES for the crypt() function, which works by
encrypting a null block with the password as the key (or something like
that). I haven't heard of any that use 3DES for system passwords, but
it's entiredly possible I guess.
We now retrun you to your regularly scheduled mailing list...
cheers,
damon
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