Cryptography and Encryption

[Tim Panton - Westhawk Ltd]

What S/key does is to store the
(previous) password, and then
run MD5 on it. It compares this
with the 'hashed' password
sent over the wire.
(that is to say it never reverses
the hash)
S/key is a one-time password
system.

Also you might want to use SHA1
instead, since MD5 has some
minor weaknesses.


"Biju Nambisan" <biju.nambisan at wipro.com> wrote:
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>Hi! All,
>
>I am trying to encode the password using the MD5 algorithm thats
>provided with the jdk1.2.We also have a necessity to decrypt the
>password....Can somebody who has worked on this suggest the code that
>goes in for decrypting.(We are interested in using MD5 for decrypting as
>well)
>Are there any freeware packages that can be imported and used ??
>This is with reference to servlets...
>Please respond ASAP...
>
>Thanks in Advance!!
>
>Regards,
>Biju
>
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