Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:21:17 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blowfish passwords in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970214092046.3845B-100000@cold.org> In-Reply-To: <E0vvHbl-00026f-00@rover.village.org>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, 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? How does it compare to SHA? We've had SHA encryption sitting in PR for a few months now, it uses the $2$ 'id'. -Brandon
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