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Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 2100] blowfish support in libcrypt

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:26:02PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> > The other question is why we should add Blowfish support when the cipher
> > is pretty much on everyone's banned list.
> 
> We should not add it. The whole interface is poorly designed and complicated
> to use.

For more than 16 years that this interface (crypt_rn, crypt_ra, and
crypt_gensalt*) is in use, it's called poorly designed and complicated
to use for the first time AFAIK.  Thorsten, could you elaborate, please?

> And there are today better cipher. Blowfish is outdated today.

Well, bcrypt is not blowfish. :)


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