Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 02:11:22 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702140811.CAA26293@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Feb 13, 97 11:58:56 pm"
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Warner Losh wrote: > > OpenBSD just committed a new encryption method using blowfish. This > has a much larger salt space as well as a much harder to break > encryption scheme. Preliminary indications are that it looks really > good. They implemented this much like md5, but with its own code. > > I think we should bring this into FreeBSD. What do others think? > > Warner > Warner, Did they post the location of any white papers? I'd like to read about it. Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii
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