On Sun, 10 May 1998, John Evans wrote:
>Why 10? Who knows? The technical reason was explained quite well by
>Daniel. Perhaps 10 was just a carry-over from DIKU.
Likely, I think 16 would be a much more round number. I think FreeBSD MD5
requires more though. Maybe we'll just make it 24, or skip the whole
problem and use ASCII pfiles. :)
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