Re: Blowfish encryption for local passwords

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora camperquake de> 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?).
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Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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