Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.

On Sat, 06 May 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsr�d wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> 
> > FreeBSD uses MD5 by default since at least ver 2.2, possibly
> > earlier.
> 
> So does Red Hat Linux, and probably Linux distributions as well. 
> 
> -- 
> Trond Eivind Glomsr�d
> Red Hat, Inc.

There is some good information about crypt and MD5 at www.php.net in the
documentation: String Functions/crypt

http://www.php.net/manual/function.crypt.php

It explains that many systems have updated crypt() to use MD5 and how to
check what hash algorithm your system's crypt() actually uses.

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Robert B. Easter
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