Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> writes: > Maybe I don't. I just want to know if I should switch from Blowfish to > SHA512. It seems that the former is quite popular judging from discussion > link given above. It also seems that des@' rationale for the switch boils > down to "I vastly prefer sha512 to blf, as that is what the rest of the > world uses." If there's nothing wrong with Blowfish, I guess I'll stick to > it as I prefer compatibility among *BSD to some weird Unix clones. :-)
My understanding is that blf and sha512 are approximately equally hard (or equally easy, if you like) to brute-force with a CPU, but sha512 is supposedly less GPU-friendly. That plus compatibility - but mostly compatibility, to be honest - tipped the scales in favor of sha512. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
