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[REBOL] Re: REBOL encryption?

From: john_kenyon:mlc:au at: 18-Feb-2002 9:34

>You're biggest problem will be sufficiently large and random passwords,
not convergence of "encrypted" (digested) passwords. Most >people's self-choosen "passwords" are way to short, and way to non-random. You can get around this by salting the input with a random string then appending the salt to the sha1 value. Have a look at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/ldap/pass_sha.html eg salt: "arandomstring" ssha: join checksum/secure join "password" salt salt cheers, John