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Subject: Re: svn commit: r237269 - in head: etc lib/libutil
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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Maybe I don't.  I just want to know if I should switch from Blowfish to
> SHA512.  It seems that the former is quite popular judging from discussion
> link given above.  It also seems that des@' rationale for the switch boils
> down to "I vastly prefer sha512 to blf, as that is what the rest of the
> world uses."  If there's nothing wrong with Blowfish, I guess I'll stick =
to
> it as I prefer compatibility among *BSD to some weird Unix clones.  :-)

My understanding is that blf and sha512 are approximately equally hard
(or equally easy, if you like) to brute-force with a CPU, but sha512 is
supposedly less GPU-friendly.  That plus compatibility - but mostly
compatibility, to be honest - tipped the scales in favor of sha512.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no