Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:04:14 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702141804.LAA00515@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org> References: <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org>
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> 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? I think DES and MD5 are enough in the default distribution. You *can* have too much of a good thing, and it hasn't been shown that MD5 is breakable, and DES is only for abackwards compatability. Trying to support 3 encryption routines is loke trying to support three init routines. :) Nate
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