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Date:      Sun, 2 May 1999 12:21:43 -0400
From:      Bryan Fullerton <bryanf@samurai.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Blowfish/Twofish
Message-ID:  <19990502122142.A289@samurai.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990502181647.C32819@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:16:47PM %2B0200
References:  <21634.925539195@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990501150648.2670B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <19990502144906.E23950@bitbox.follo.net> <199905021458.QAA02696@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990502170929.B32819@bitbox.follo.net> <199905021541.RAA02885@greenpeace.grondar.za> <19990502181647.C32819@bitbox.follo.net>

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On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> 
> The point of this exercise would (IMO, at least) only be OpenBSD
> compatibility, where OpenBSD for marketeering reasons has decided to
> use Blowfish as part of their hash algorithm.  If people can't migrate
> their password files, they are much less likely to migrate to FreeBSD,
> which means we should support their password formats if feasible.

Are there many people migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD?

Bryan

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