Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:18:41 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970215001754.17869C-100000@maslow.cia-g.com> In-Reply-To: <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org>
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Where has this been used before though? MD5 and especially DES have been time proven and tested and white papers have been written, and people have studied them to death already. On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > OpenBSD just committed a new encryption method using blowfish. This > has a much larger salt space as well as a much harder to break > encryption scheme. Preliminary indications are that it looks really > good. They implemented this much like md5, but with its own code. > > I think we should bring this into FreeBSD. What do others think?
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