On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> This is a wonderful example of the Choate's
> inability to engage in coherent discussion,
> and to assume that any reference must be
> to himself. It also demonstrates his
> incompetence re cryptography.
>
> The 'amusing claim' I refer to is the one made
> by the PeopleLink folk that their product
> uses "MD5 encryption". MD5 is a hash
> algorithm, not an encryption algorithm.
Yea... except that there are symmetric encryption algorithims based
on hashes. Peter Gutmann's MDC is an example of one.
I haven't looked at it, so I have no idea if PeopleLink is using something
like MDC with MD5 or if they're being clueless at the marketing or
engineering level.
Eric
