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Re: wish list



On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, you <Bay Ghandhi> wrote:

> 
> 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?
> 
OpenBSD touts this as one of thier strong points....
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