Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 17:41:47 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <199905021541.RAA02885@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 02 May 1999 17:09:29 %2B0200." <19990502170929.B32819@bitbox.follo.net> 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>
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Eivind Eklund wrote: > > _Way_ overkill. A far simpler structure can easily be built by hand. > > I do not understand what you mean - elaborate? Dynamically linking in > a new library if it is present is not very difficult - do you mean > that OpenSSL has too complicated an API? Or what is it you're trying > to say? Yes. libcrypto from OpenSSL is huge, and is hefty overkill for a password hashing system. Apart from that, it has a name conflict with kerberos (which also has a libcrypto). A password hashing system just needs a couple (few?) good hashes; nothing else. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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