On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Josh Higham wrote: > This is a result of UNIX crypt (I believe). Standard unix passwords only > handle the first 8 characters of a password; RH6.0 allows you to install MD5 > passwords, which can give you additional length, if desired. Most Linux distributions do this. Anyone relaying on DES passwd encryption these days could be said to have no passwd encryption at all - the entire legal 1-8 character passwd space will fit in less than 4Gb, so a determined cracker can fairly quickly determine what any given crypted password really is. AB
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