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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD 
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:50:43 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>
>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?

We already have a submission for SSH (?) passwords in a PR, they
should be merged and documented.

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