Re: Digest Authentication

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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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