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Date:      Sun, 02 May 1999 02:32:55 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, The Tech-Admin Dude <geniusj@phoenix.unacom.com>, Brian Beaulieu <brian@capital-data.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Blowfish/Twofish 
Message-ID:  <23332.925637575@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 May 1999 11:25:09 %2B0200." <372C19F5.625BB2B@vangelderen.org> 

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> Regardless of what you think about Blowfish, recommending Twofish
> is a very, very bad move. The golden rule in crypto is that trust
> comes with the age of an algorithm. Twofish is waaaay to young to
> be trusted, especially since it's an evolutionary improvement
> over Blowfish which you don't like for some reason.

Erm, one of the goals of PAM is to support *multiple* encryption
methods, so why not do a PAM module for each and let the administrator
decide which authentication methods to support in /etc/pam.conf?

- Jordan


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