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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:24:25 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/secure/lib/libcrypt blowfish.c blowfish.h crypt-blowfish.c src/lib/libcrypt Makefile crypt.3 crypt.c crypt.h
Message-ID:  <20010311142425.C65721@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010311133847.23168S-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:40:09PM -0500
References:  <200103111643.f2BGhCf84561@gratis.grondar.za> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010311133847.23168S-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:40:09PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Mark Murray wrote:
>=20
> > > Neat!  Now we too can design and sell some blowfish T-shirts? ;)
> > > Anyway, this is another great fruit from OpenBSD!
> >=20
> > :-)
> >=20
> > > By the way, I found a possible typo:
> >=20
> > Nope. This covers "sub-classes" as well.
> >=20
> > $2$ and $2a$ are blowfish. Go figure :-(
>=20
> However, it would still be better to have two explicit checks than a
> single prefix, because there's nothing to prevent $2b$ from being another
> variant, only an incompatible one.  I.e., I would feel uncomfortable
> matching only $2, and instead would rather see two checks, one for $2$ and
> one for $2a$.

It looks like the code already does this.

Kris

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