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Re: Tool to crypt a password



Nicolas George [2017-02-06 17:43:32+01] wrote:

> L'octidi 18 pluviôse, an CCXXV, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
>> I wrote this many years ago.  It's primitive, but may suit:
>> 
>> http://wooledge.org/~greg/crypt/
>
> Indeed. Unfortunately, it suffers from a limitation similar to the one
> of htpasswd: it only supports 3DES, the oldest and weakest hashing
> algorithm.

I'm not expert in this area but from what I have read I'm quite sure
that 3DES is still very much safe. There are no known practical attack
methods and it's still used for serious encryption.

Wikipedia has some information (with references) and this was discussed
recently in GnuPG users mailing list.

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