Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: adding capability for blowfish passwords
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/23/2002 12:52:42
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Micha³ Pasternak wrote:
> Martin Husemann [Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:43:44PM +0200]:
> > > Yeah, I want it and I guess more people too :)
> >
> > Excuse my ignorance, I don't know if I want it ;-)
> >
> > Can someone point me to a paper or similar comparing pros and cons of
> > blowfish, MD5, (IDEA?) and traditional crypt used for UNIX password storing?
>
> http://www.google.com
>
> BTW when MD5 was discussed, did you still want to have traditional crypt
> encryption, because you didn't know if you want MD5 ?
That's neither helpful nor polite way to reply to people. How about you
submit some package updates instead? :P
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