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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 1997 02:11:22 -0600 (CST)
From:      Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199702140811.CAA26293@main.gbdata.com>
In-Reply-To: <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Feb 13, 97 11:58:56 pm"

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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?
> 
> Warner
> 
Warner,

Did they post the location of any white papers?  I'd like to read about
it.

Gary

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