[vox] When did Linux start using MD5?

[Trevor Lango]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicole TWN [mailto:ana.ng@tmbg.org] 
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:28 PM
> To: Vox Lugod
> Subject: [vox] When did Linux start using MD5?
> 
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> Anyone know, offhand, when any major Linux distro started supporting 
> MD5-hashed passwords?  (I'm commenting on a memo that claims 
> RH 7.3 uses 
> a non-MD5 hash; my contention is that MD5 was available, at 
> least as an 
> option, for years and years.)


SuSE had support for MD5 at least as of 6.2 and I think that was late 90's.