Re: wish list

[Bay Ghandhi <bghandhi@earthlink.net>]

>  that it's significant enough to warent MD5 over DES.  One thing is for sure,
>  DES (aka Unix crypt) offers nothing over MD5 with the possible exception of
>  password file portability.  (But we are talking SECURE distributions here -
>  right?)
>  

Why not use Blowfish? From the man page:

DESCRIPTION
     Blowfish is a fast unpatented block cipher designed by Bruce Schneier.
     It basically consists of a 16 times iterated Feistel network.  The block
     size is 64 bit and the key size is maximal 448 bit.

Problem with "strong crypto" is screwy US laws mean no exports of it from
the US, but I presume this distro is going to originate elsewhere?

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