On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:48:00PM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: | On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Gandalf The White wrote: | | >What I am worried about is the integrity of MD5 hashed passwords. This | | >It does not matter that I don't know the correct password, I have a | >password | >that collides into the correct hash. I can log into the system with my | >generated password. | | Can't we just truncate the password to 8 characters like in the old days | before doing the MD5 hash? It will greatly reduce the chance of a collision. | In fact, I am not even sure my systems don't do this already. Just what I want! 8 character passwords on *your* systems. ;) Adam