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Re: OpenSSH Password Question

From: Markus Friedl <markus.friedl () INFORMATIK UNI-ERLANGEN DE>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:31:21 +0100

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:20:39PM +0100, Bluefish (P.Magnusson) wrote:

As a minor comment, I've heard some people (not in this ml) complain about
the fact that old fashion unix cuts passwords and think it would be a
great idea to update the old crypt to support longer DES passwords.


an even better idea whould be bcrypt from Niels Provos:

        http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bcrypt-paper.ps

Current thread:

OpenSSH Password Question Erik Tayler (Dec 09)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Gordon Messmer (Dec 09)
  - Re: OpenSSH Password Question White Vampire (Dec 10)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Daniel Jacobowitz (Dec 09)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bill Weiss (Dec 10)
  - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Erik Tayler (Dec 10)
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Markus Friedl (Dec 10)
  - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Dec 11)
    - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Markus Friedl (Dec 11)
    - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bennett Todd (Dec 12)
    - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Dec 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: OpenSSH Password Question Vitaly McLain (Dec 10)
  - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Matt Rose (Dec 10)
    - Re: OpenSSH Password Question Vitaly McLain (Dec 11)