- From: Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 08:58:02 -0800
- To: smb@research.att.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I realized after sending my message, that I was thinking of "chalace", and not snefru. I hadn't known snefru wasn't as strong as MD5 - interesting. Snuffle turned out to be an encryption system built overtop of snefru. Thank you for pointing this out. In message <199601010007.TAA09825@ns2.rutgers.edu>you write: > "Snefru" is widely available, tho probably not widely used, and uses > MD5 for authentication. The US goverment does not appear to have gone > after the author. I wrote a system using MD5 for auth, inspired by > snefru, but I have no intention of allowing it off campus, at this > point. :( > >Snefru does not use MD5. It's an alternative to it, and not as strong. > Dan Stromberg - OAC/DCS strombrg@uci.edu
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