Blowfish encryption for local passwords

[Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus tmus dk>]

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

/Thomas