Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:27:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702141927.VAA18273@grackle.grondar.za>
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Brandon Gillespie wrote: > 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'. I have your scheme commit-ready now. It looks like we'll have too merge in this as well. M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE
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