Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 18:28:53 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf@samurai.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <19990502182853.D32819@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19990502122142.A289@samurai.com>; from Bryan Fullerton on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:21:43PM -0400 References: <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990501150648.2670B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <19990502144906.E23950@bitbox.follo.net> <199905021458.QAA02696@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990502170929.B32819@bitbox.follo.net> <199905021541.RAA02885@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990502181647.C32819@bitbox.follo.net> <19990502122142.A289@samurai.com>
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Moved to -chat - please try to hold the lists reasonably to their topic. On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote: > On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > > The point of this exercise would (IMO, at least) only be OpenBSD > > compatibility, where OpenBSD for marketeering reasons has decided to > > use Blowfish as part of their hash algorithm. If people can't migrate > > their password files, they are much less likely to migrate to FreeBSD, > > which means we should support their password formats if feasible. > > Are there many people migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD? I don't know - but the chance of there being many of them increases if there is a simple way for them to migrate. This needs to include the ability to keep their old password files. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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