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From: tli@uscvax.UUCP (Tony Li)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: VMS password encryption
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 00:05:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 00:05:27 1985
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> UNIX uses a variation of DES to hash passwords.  Does anyone know what
> the DEC VMS system does?

VMS has used two different schemes:  The first was an Autodin-II polynomial. 
The current scheme is a Purdy polynomial.

Cheers, 
Tony ;-)

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