Re: Blowfish encryption for local passwords

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Hi.

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:54:47 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:

> We want to be able to encrypt our local passwords in a way that is 
> impossible to crack and take the longest to brute force. Blowfish
> seems to be the winner here (from what I know, at least).

The point was that MD5 is a hash algorithm, while Blowfish is an
encryption algorithm. Both types are certainly related, but are
different things.

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