Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 11:30:44 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, The Tech-Admin Dude <geniusj@phoenix.unacom.com>, Brian Beaulieu <brian@capital-data.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish Message-ID: <2570.925637444@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 May 1999 11:25:09 %2B0200." <372C19F5.625BB2B@vangelderen.org>
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In message <372C19F5.625BB2B@vangelderen.org>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" writes: >Robert Watson wrote: >[...] >> I'd recommend against using Blowfish--go for Twofish. > >Regardless of what you think about Blowfish, recommending Twofish >is a very, very bad move. Considering that the concept for passwords is a "kleenex-model", it doesn't matter. We can change the algorithm at the first hint of trouble and ask people to change passwords and we're in safe water. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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