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Re: SHA-1 vs. triple-DES for password encryption?

From: David Wagner <daw(at)mozart.cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 12:11:37 EST

Craig Minton wrote:
>2. 3DES may be used to create a one-way function by using the password

Watch out. This will limit the length of allowable passwords to some fixed upper bound -- maybe not a good idea.

You omitted the fact that it may be better to avoid using passwords in the first place. Received on Wed Nov 13 04:59:36 2002

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