On Friday, 05/25/2007 at 01:20 AST, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> I'd be interested in a show of hands to find out if others prefer to and
> do roll your own for database password encryption vs. using RACF's DES
> code.  I told the RACF developer that I'd let him know what I found.

I think your question is: Should RACF be shipped with DES encryption 
enabled by default, or should it be compatible with prior releases of the 
RACF database?  The exit is telling RACF to use the hash format instead of 
built-in DES encryption (the default if the exit is not provided at all).

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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