On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:01:47AM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger 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. I'm not a crypto geek, but a little research shows that there's a blowfish-derived hash function which can be used with crypt. It's not blowfish itself (or encryption). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
