On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 22:03 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is there a reason why fedora does not support blowfish (at least through > the various included tools, system-config-authentication etc.) for > password encryption? > From my understanding, Blowfish provides encryption far superior to > even MD5 and there should no license problems. > Even though MD5 might seem hard-enough-to-crack, why would we stop there? > > Also, it seems like supporting blowfish would not be very hard to > implement in fedora, so why don't we? > > (and the unavoidable:) Other linux distros have Blowfish encryption for > passwords ;-) > > Thanks We need support for blowfish directly in glibc or replace libcrypt from glibc with libxcrypt first. Then all other packages can be updated to support Blowfish. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173002 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173834 -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
