On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:23:01PM +0100, milunovic wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody have blow fish for FreeBSD or know wehere to find it?
> > I just want to change password encription from MD5 to blow fish:o)
>
> A little question: why? MD5 seems to be secure enough.
>
> Other than that, look at the security/libmcrypt port, it has Blowfish
> as an available encryption algorithm. It's not in a usable form for
> password encryption, though; you need to pull out the guts of the
> encryption function and build your own crypt() function.
Come to think of it, there's nothing that would prevent security/libmcrypt
to be part of the authentication process (not crypt(), though). Is there
something inherently flawed in the idea of a PAM module using libs which
do not live in /usr, but in /usr/local?
G'luck,
Peter
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