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 -- If I had finished this sentence, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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