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

[Thorsten Kukuk]

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 Blowfish is outdated today.

  Thorsten

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