Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: adding capability for blowfish passwords
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/23/2002 12:26:29
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:50:03AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> Hi, I have been looking into different password schemes recently, and was
> wondering:
> Is there any interest in adding the functionality for blowfish crypt() to
> NetBSD? I am thinking about porting the relevant code, but see no reason =
to
> do so unless others might want it as well.
>=20
> If there is enough interest to make it worth my while, I will port the co=
de
> from OpenBSD, and add code so that it could be enabled/disabled in
> passwd.conf, as well as by the standard syntax for crypt (being that
> blowfish would use '2' instead of '1' in the salt argument to crypt())
>=20
> Any feedback is appreciated.

Yeah, I want it and I guess more people too :)

Thanks.

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Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>

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