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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
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