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To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, security@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD
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Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> writes:

> 
> 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?
> 
> How does it compare to SHA?  We've had SHA encryption sitting in PR for a
> few months now, it uses the $2$ 'id'.

here's a pretty cool URL for htis stuff:

<URL:http://www.cs.hut.fi/crypto/algorithms.html>