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Re: Which password cipher ?



On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:33:38PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> 
> Outside the NetBSD bubble most newly installed systems use MD5.

If that is actually the case, then it is not possible to certify such
systems under most of the interesting/commercially valuable security
standards.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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