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Fri Mar 29 20:20:59 CET 2002
----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Andrei Robachevsky" <andrei at ripe.net>; "Olafur Osvaldsson" <oli at isnic.is>; <db-wg at ripe.net> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 5:31 PM Subject: Re: MD5 proposal > >> My main concern here would be that basing the proposed method on an > >> implementation (md5-crypt), which may change or may be mixed with some > >> other implementation, rather than on the documented algorithm (md5 > >> hash), which cannot, may cause confusion in the future. > >> And, as a side question from a person far from cryptography, is it a > >> proved fact that iterative complexity of md5-crypt makes the hash better? > > It makes dictionary attacks harder and more timeconsuming, it also > > makes it harder to do hardware implementations because you need > > many times more hardware. > > the way out of this would seem to be for someone to write an internet draft > on salted md5 and process it through the ietf security area. > > randy
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