Re: Blowfish encryption for local passwords

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

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).

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