First, thanks again to all for the responses.
Summarizing the responses, the gist was that MD5 is more secure, may
take more resources, but the big advantage seemed to be that it would
take longer than 8 character passwords. I guess that would make a
dictionary lookup more difficult because now
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
MD5 is a message-digest algorithms developed by RSA (Rivest). It is meant for digital
signature applications where a large message has to be ``compressed'' in a secure
manner before being signed with the private key. It take a message of arbitrary length
and produce a 128-bit message digest.
To add to Anand's answer (in a separate e-mail), MD5 allows you to use
passwords that are 256 characters in length.
Note: If you have the shipping version of RH 7.2, you should apply the PAM
updates to fix a bug with PAM and passwords that are 8 characters.
SysAdmin Magazine has an
--- scott.list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone tell me what the advantage and disadvantages of using MD5
passwords are?
MD5 is more secure than the standard crypt. (advantage)
I don't see any (dis-advantage) in being relatively more secure.
Is it just stronger encryption?
Yes it is.
Does
