MD5 proposal

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Andrei Robachevsky wrote:

AR> You may remember that at the RIPE-41 it was agreed to improve the
AR> security of password(passphrase) based auth-schemes by introducing the
AR> MD5 hash algorithm for password encryption.
AR>
AR> Please find enclosed the MD5 proposal for your comments and suggestions.
AR>
AR> auth:             MD5-PW <digest>
AR>
AR> where <digest> is a 128-bit MD5 digest.
AR>
AR> For example:
AR>
AR> auth:             MD5-PW 4aabd3dbc0746c8a4b5467f99a4f8524

Hmm, would it not to be simpler to use BSD-style of $1$ crypt?

E.g.

Auth:		CRYPT-PW $1$salt$hash...


Which is
- standard for most of current *NIX clones
- easy to detect by $1$ prefix for the software


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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