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From Vince Vielhaber
Subject Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071426270.81653-100000@paprika.michvhf.com
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In response to Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> 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.

yep.

Vince.
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