Re: RFC: A UNIX crypt(3) replacement

[Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>]

The Deviant wrote:
| On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Joshua E. Hill wrote:
| > 	I'm trying to think of a function to replace UNIX's crypt(3).  
| > My design criteria are as follows:

| Why? UNIX passwords with password shadowing are as secure as any password
| system is going to get.  If your security holes are with passwords, its
| because your admin is to lazy to install needed security provissions, not
| because the system of checking passwords is bad.

	A longer salt would make running crack against a large
password file slower.

Adam

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