Re: [Aime-devel] Misc things

[George a. R. N. <no...@ac...>]

Nick Finco wrote:

> > This sounds good to me.  What does it use for password
> > encryption/authorization?  I've created a task for it so
> > someone can work on
>
> MD5 is defined by RFC1321 ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1321.html ).
> It's a hashing algorithm that takes in an arbitrary amount of data and
> gives back a 128-bit identifer for the data.  Basically, what I'm talking
> about is using this for the one-way encryption of passwords instead of
> using crypt.  It provides a reasonably unique value for any data input.
> Plus since it supports any amount of data the passwords could be set for a
> max length of 50 and a min length of 10 so passphrases could be used
> instead.  There is source for it in the rfc but I think it might be better
> to use the source that comes with ssh.
>

Great, sounds good.  Lets just make sure if we use other's code that we remain
legal and don't disrupt our GPL licensing.  And we document where it came
from.

George