Re: blowfish password support
$2a$ <kerbber0s@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a patch for pam ( and/or glibc ) to add
> blowfish
> password support (openBSD style)in Debian ?
"Many cryptographers have examined Blowfish, although there are few
published results. Serge Vaudenay examined weak keys in Blowfish;
there is a class of keys that can be detected--although not broken--
in Blowfish variants of 14 rounds or less. Vincent Rijmen's Ph.D.
thesis includes a second-order differential attack on 4-round Blowfish
that cannot be extended to more rounds."
http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html
Perhaps Twofish would be the better joice. Also Schneier.
No weaknesses known.
VB.
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