Re: RIPEMD-160

From: Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org)
Date: 02/23/01 

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:35:26 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:27:49PM -0500, Rob Simmons wrote:
> I am interested in changing the libcrypt links to point to RIPEMD-160
> libs. I looked in the source, and I noticed that there are a set of MD
> based algorithm libs in src/lib/libmd. Is there a way to get these to
> work when libcrypt is linked to them? I tried just linking to the three
> files like you would to the DES or MD5 libs, but it failed.

Well, it's of course not this simple - you would have to modify the
libcrypt code. But IMO there's no justification for doing this - MD5
passwords aren't known to be insecure in any way.

Kris

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