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From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] passtokey question
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:06:33 -0500
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We needed a mixing (i.e. hash) algorithm to go from > 56 bits to 56 bits.
At the time DES was the best mixing algorithm we had.  It was, and still
is, used in a number of pseudo random number generators so there was some
precedent.  If I had to do it from scratch today, I'ld probably run sha1
or mda5.