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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted
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Msg-id 11229.962994225@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to crypt and MD5 - still not wanted  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
Responses Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted  (Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>)
Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
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If I recall the prior discussion, MD5 is OK, crypt is still risky,
because MD5 is not an encryption algorithm so it doesn't fall under
the US export laws.

I believe Vince V. is working on improving the password challenge
code to use MD5, btw.
        regards, tom lane

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