Windows NT password Encryption.
Brad Huntting
huntting at glarp.com
Tue Nov 16 06:34:09 PST 1993
> Does anyone know what algorithm Microsoft are using for password
> encryption on Windows NT ? I've just been to a talk and told it
> was a proprietry 1-way algorithm, but not DES based (so as to avoid
> US export laws).
The export laws dont apply to 1-way DES hashing. You can even
export the source as long as there are #ifdef's that make shure it
doesn't decrypt anything.
brad
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