cc linux-man On Thursday 2009-10-22 14:01, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >In CRYPT.3: >>"In the SHA implementation the entire key is significant (instead of >>only the first 8 bytes in MD5)." >> >>Is wrong the old version? (though I think MD5 has more than 8 bytes >>significant of the key) Can someone clarify this? or I am missing >>something? > >Correct would be: > >* DES only uses the first 8 plaintext chars >* Blowfish $2a$ only uses the first 72 plaintext chars > >all others (MD5 $1$, SHA 256/512 $5$/$6$) seem to be using the entire >plaintext. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
