Yes, as you told, I was writing from my memory and I remembered having read DES encryption with password in source somewhere. But It seems it was a DES based h

Yes, as you told, I was writing from my memory and I remembered having read DES encryption with password in source somewhere. But It seems it was a DES based hashing: http://www.duosecurity.com/blog/entry/brief_analysis_of_the_gawker_password_dump http://www.duosecurity.com/blog/entry/brief_analysis_of_the_... [edit] deleted the parent post because I could not find the article I remembered (which was probably wrong anyways).