When might Solaris ship with md5 password capabilties?

From: Price, Chris (CPrice@talisman-energy.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 12:14:54 EDT


        Fellow Managers;

        Does anyone know if, and when Solaris might ship with an
implementation of md5 password hashes?
The current implementation is (correct if wrong) crypt, which is a very,
very poor hash implementation these days.
I just created a dictionary of all possible passwords between 4 chars and 8
chars (the dict is very large), which
results in very fast solutions to what I considered to be fairly strong 8
char passwords.

        With Solaris already having a PAM foundation, one would think it
would be easy to specify md5
passwords. Does yp/nis/nis+ complicate this?

        I will summarize.

        Cheers

        Chris Price
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