For the reasonably bored, I just figured out how the MD5 enabled crypt function in unix works, and holy ugly. Basically, it takes a password and a salt. It then starts a 1000 iteration loop. It then hashes the result of the hash iterativly, using the sale every 3rd time, the original password every 7th time, and all other times, use the results of the last hash. Upon further reading, they did this becouse MD5 hashing isn't slow. They figured if the implementation required you to do it 1000 times, it would slow down crack attacks of the resulting hash. Useless knowledge I suppose, but I found it interesting. Ok, hideouse AND interesting, but still.. ;-P --- Thomas Charron << Wanted: One decent sig >> << Preferably litle used >> << and stored in garage. ?>> ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
