From owner-freebsd-security Sun May 2 7:58:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F3B151B4; Sun, 2 May 1999 07:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA36303; Sun, 2 May 1999 16:58:36 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02696; Sun, 2 May 1999 16:58:30 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199905021458.QAA02696@greenpeace.grondar.za> To: Eivind Eklund Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blowfish/Twofish In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sun, 02 May 1999 14:49:06 +0200." <19990502144906.E23950@bitbox.follo.net> References: <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990502144906.E23950@bitbox.follo.net> Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 16:58:29 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 03:07:30PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > So I'd gladly write this code, as well as do a number of other > > crypto-related things, but I'm inside the US. Someone outside the US will > > have to take this initiative, I'm afraid. > > For this application, being inside the US is probably not a problem. > The way I would implement this is to use OpenSSL (formerly SSLeay) > through their library interface, dlopen() the library, and only > support Blowfish passwords if the library is available. As what > you'll be writing is authentication infrastructure, not encryption > infrastructure, exporting it is not a problem. I do not know of any > country that forbid export of authentication infrastructure. _Way_ overkill. A far simpler structure can easily be built by hand. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message