Sounds like it could be useful for some people, so I'd say go for it.

Jaromir

Sean Davis wrote:
> Hi, I have been looking into different password schemes recently, and was
> wondering:
> Is there any interest in adding the functionality for blowfish crypt() to
> NetBSD? I am thinking about porting the relevant code, but see no reason to
> do so unless others might want it as well.
> 
> If there is enough interest to make it worth my while, I will port the code
> from OpenBSD, and add code so that it could be enabled/disabled in
> passwd.conf, as well as by the standard syntax for crypt (being that
> blowfish would use '2' instead of '1' in the salt argument to crypt())
> 
> Any feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Sean
> 
> 
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