On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:23:25PM -0500, scott.list wrote: > Can someone tell me what the advantage and disadvantages of using MD5 > passwords are?
MD5 uses the entire length of the password instead of just the first 8 characters, as crypt does. > Is it just stronger encryption? Yes. > Does it make it harder to run a brute force dictionary crack on a > password file harder? Yes. > Does it require more resources if you have thousands of password > lookups going on in a short time frame? In theory yes. In practice, I don't think it makes much difference, but I haven't done any analysis, so I could be wrong. -- Anand Buddhdev Personal site: http://anand.org _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
