Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: adding capability for blowfish passwords
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3?= Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
List: current-users
Date: 05/23/2002 12:44:00
Martin Husemann [Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:43:44PM +0200]:
> > Yeah, I want it and I guess more people too :)
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, I don't know if I want it ;-)
> 
> Can someone point me to a paper or similar comparing pros and cons of
> blowfish, MD5, (IDEA?) and traditional crypt used for UNIX password storing?

http://www.google.com 

BTW when MD5 was discussed, did you still want to have traditional crypt
encryption, because you didn't know if you want MD5 ?

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