Once upon a time, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > The point was that MD5 is a hash algorithm, while Blowfish is an > encryption algorithm. Both types are certainly related, but are > different things. Wasn't the original Unix crypt DES, which is an encryption algorithm? IIRC it worked by using the password as the key to encrypt an empty string (repeatedly?). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
