encrypted passwords

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Fri Apr 12 21:00:07 EDT 2002



Absolutely not, it is a clear text equivalent.  You can look at 
src/tds/login.c for the exact algorithm.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Bradley Bell wrote:

> Hi, looking at the login packets at http://www.freetds.org/tds.html, I see
> that the 7.0 protocol appears to use encrypted passwords, and the other does
> not.  How secure is this encryption?  Is it perceived to be good enough to
> go out across an open network?
> 
> -brad
> 
> 




More information about the FreeTDS mailing list