Query on speed of crypt(3)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <235 at tnl.UUCP> norstar at tnl.UUCP (Daniel Ray) writes:
>The key to password security (assuming we stay with a crypt(3)-type
>hashing scheme with shorter length passwords) seems to be having a unique
>scheme for each machine.

No, a much simpler and better solution is to keep the encrypted
passwords unreadable (except of course to specific privileged
programs that perform password validation etc.).