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Date:      Sun, 2 May 1999 14:49:06 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        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:  <19990502144906.E23950@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990501150648.2670B-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from Robert Watson on Sat, May 01, 1999 at 03:07:30PM -0400
References:  <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990501150648.2670B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 03:07:30PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> So I'd gladly write this code, as well as do a number of other
> crypto-related things, but I'm inside the US.  Someone outside the US will
> have to take this initiative, I'm afraid.

For this application, being inside the US is probably not a problem.
The way I would implement this is to use OpenSSL (formerly SSLeay)
through their library interface, dlopen() the library, and only
support Blowfish passwords if the library is available.  As what
you'll be writing is authentication infrastructure, not encryption
infrastructure, exporting it is not a problem.  I do not know of any
country that forbid export of authentication infrastructure.

Eivind.


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