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Message-ID: <20150815163759.GA14671@openwall.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:37:59 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: auditing our use of FMT_* flags
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:39:43PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 08/14/2015 10:22 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> > We might want
> > to see what invalid salt handling is currently most common for descrypt
> > hashes in the wild, and revise this table accordingly, at which point it
> > might happen that it'd be symmetric wrt the 8th bit. But not right now.
>
> Is descrypt really still used "in the wild"?
Of course.
> If yes, is there any excuse not to switch to something better?
Just the usual reasons/excuses for keeping old systems running.
I think some new embedded systems might still default to descrypt,
though. QNX certainly did a while ago, and probably still does.
Alexander
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