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Pierre Baume pierre at baume.org
Fri Mar 29 18:18:05 CET 2002

Randy and all,

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Randy Bush wrote:

> > Andrei Robachevsky wrote:
> >
> >> My main concern here would be that basing the proposed method on an
> >> implementation (md5-crypt), which may change or may be mixed with
> >> some other implementation, rather than on the documented algorithm
> >> (md5 hash), which cannot, may cause confusion in the future.

[snip]
 
> the way out of this would seem to be for someone to write an internet
> draft on salted md5 and process it through the ietf security area.
> 
> randy

  I'm looking into this. Any other volunteers/suggestions?

Pierre.

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