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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:31:41 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        milunovic <milunovic@sendmail.ru>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blow fish
Message-ID:  <20010302143141.B2609@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20010302142603.A2609@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:26:03PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103021318230.5058-100000@scorpion.cosmos.all.net> <20010302142603.A2609@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:23:01PM +0100, milunovic wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody have blow fish for FreeBSD or know wehere to find it?
> > I just want to change password encription from MD5 to blow fish:o)
> 
> A little question: why?  MD5 seems to be secure enough.
> 
> Other than that, look at the security/libmcrypt port, it has Blowfish
> as an available encryption algorithm.  It's not in a usable form for
> password encryption, though; you need to pull out the guts of the
> encryption function and build your own crypt() function.

Come to think of it, there's nothing that would prevent security/libmcrypt
to be part of the authentication process (not crypt(), though).  Is there
something inherently flawed in the idea of a PAM module using libs which
do not live in /usr, but in /usr/local?

G'luck,
Peter

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