From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 17:53:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A98A37B41A for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheech.uchaswv.edu ([172.16.32.40]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA21724; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:53:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:01:26 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: Neil Darlow , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How do I enable Blowfish passwords? Message-Id: <20010923210126.6d863b0f.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010923.13230500@ideal.darlow.co.uk> References: <20010923065851.D23834-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> <20010923.13230500@ideal.darlow.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i know that blowfish is a way of encrypting passwprds, but is it better than MD5? how is it different? nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message