Re: Network Solutions Crypt-PW Authentication-Scheme vulnerability

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert () wiggy net>]

Previously Peter van Dijk wrote:
> crypt() passwords are never more than 8 characters - anything beyond
> 8 characters is discarded.

That highly depends on the crypt implementation. The original crypt
only used 8 characters, but modern implementations can use different
schemes (md5 for example).

Wichert.

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