Re: Passwords

The Hermit Hacker writes:

> My *understanding* is that MD5 is a half-way measure that is easier to
> break then DES, which is why it isn't under the export restrictions ...

If you don't feel secure about MD5 you can always use SHA1. In fact you
might want to look at the mhash package which has a bunch of hashing
functions with a decent interface and it's under a BSD'ish license. At
least you can steal the implementation from there.

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