[PATCH] Repacing libntlm

Justin Karneges justin-psi-A4HSxAr4s6pBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 1 07:35:43 GMT 2004


On Sunday 31 October 2004 10:48 pm, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:05 am, Szombathelyi György wrote:
> > I wrote a KNTLM class to replace libntlm. This has three advantages:
> > - True unicode usernames and passwords can be used.
> > - It supports NTLMv2 authentication.
> > - No external dependency needed.
>
> I like it, but I wonder if some of this could be pushed down into QCA
> (kdesupport/qca).  It already has MD4, and probably DES (if I knew where to
> look).
>
> Brad

QCA has no plain DES hook, but it does have TripleDES.  The only reason DES 
isn't in there is because it is known to be weak (the same reason that MD2, 
SHA0, etc, were not in QCA initially).  But if it's needed, adding another 
hook is easy.

-Justin



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