Re: crypt JAVA from Gary Howland on 1997-04-09 (www-jigsaw@w3.org from March to April 1997)

From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 14:46:20 +0200
To: Leslie Cuff <lez@fastfwd.com>
cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Message-Id: <199704091246.OAA04559@internal-mail.systemics.com>

> Needed a Java Equivalent of the unix CRYPT function.
>    is there one that has been ``approved'' for use by security teams?

If there is no need for compatibility with unix crypt(3), then I think
the MD5 hash function will do the job just as well.  And as far as I
know there should be no problems with exporting this.

We have an implementation on http://www.systemics.com/software


Gary

Received on Wednesday, 9 April 1997 08:46:35 UTC