Re: MD5 vs. DES (+knoppix-installer)

> Fabian Franz wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > at the moment I also use crypt, but I use htpasswd to generate the
> passwords
> > I'll check if md5 is compatible with knoppix and then use those, if you
> > really want it ...
> > Are they really so much secure ?
> 
> MD5 ? Under 6 hours to "brute force" crack with a plain vanilla 3 GHz
> P-IV.

Uhm, you probably mean DES ?

> HAVAL seems to be a litle better, but as you say... a weak password
> is much easier to crack, and most of the time people just don't care
> about the quality of their chosen passwords.
> 
> Talking about another subject, couldn't you choose a shorter name 
> instead of "knoppix-install"? Is it really needed to type 15 symbols 
> (including a slash) just to make that script run?
> Will it work worse if you call it something like "knx2hd" or "k2hd"?

My script is called knoppix-installer, and you probably haven't heard of tab
completion, yet ?

You type:

knop<TAB>i<TAB>

and you have:

knoppix-installer

That are just seven chars ... ;-)

cu

Fabian

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