Re: [OT] Re: Solaris Password Conversion

[Bob van der Kamp]

But what about during the login process? When the user types in his password
it can be "converted" to sha.



Bob

> Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Mike Jackson writes:
>> [snip]
>> > There is no way to convert md5 from linux password files to sha,
>> > unless you learn how to factor large numbers quickly.
>>
>> It would help breaking public key crypto, but what has factorization
>> to do with MD5 & SHA?
>
> You're right, even that won't help.
>
> --
> Mike


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