"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> In my opinion, there's no technical reason to do it.  If you want to 
> add a new scheme, SHA512 would be a much better choice.  The only 
> reason I can see is password file compatibility with OpenBSD.

I have to agree with Steve on this. Blowfish is not a particularly
well understood hash algorithm, and in general SHA* are a well
understood and standardized set of hash algorithms.

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