Blowfish encryption for local passwords

[Tomas Mraz]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 22:03 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 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

We need support for blowfish directly in glibc or replace libcrypt from
glibc with libxcrypt first. Then all other packages can be updated to
support Blowfish.

See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173002

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173834

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Tomas Mraz
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