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Date:      Sat, 1 May 1999 15:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        The Tech-Admin Dude <geniusj@phoenix.unacom.com>, Brian Beaulieu <brian@capital-data.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Blowfish/Twofish 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990501150648.2670B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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.

I'd recommend against using Blowfish--go for Twofish.

On Sat, 1 May 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905010205230.69105-100000@phoenix.unacom.com>, The Tech-Admin Du
> de writes:
> 
> >This is something i've wanted to know for a long time :).. It should adopt
> >the passwd.conf settings from OpenBSD with selection of encryption, ratio,
> >etc.. OpenBSD has a very good feature with that and it would  be great if
> >FreeBSD adopted it! :-)
> 
> Make patches
> send-pr
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!
> 
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