Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 00:31:48 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Cc: geniusj@phoenix.unacom.com, brian@capital-data.com Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <199905010631.AAA21013@lal.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 1, 99 08:13:15 am
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Lo and behold, Poul-Henning Kamp once said:
>
> >This is something i've wanted to know for a long time :).. It should adopt
> >the passwd.conf settings from OpenBSD with selection of encryption, ratio,
> >etc.. OpenBSD has a very good feature with that and it would be great if
> >FreeBSD adopted it! :-)
>
> Make patches
> send-pr
Note that OpenBSD passwd file work was actually implemented by a person
outside of the US, and it would likely be advantageous if the FreeBSD
situation were to be handled similarly. Parts of the design were done
domestically, but the code was kept out, which simplifies distribution
somewhat.
-Dave
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