On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
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> ꀠ咗ell... if someone wants to add another encryption method that's fine
> ꀠ烀/me. 嘅obody should be using plaintext passwords for remote access
> ꀠ乸nyway since most attacks don't even bother trying to decrypt any more,
> ꀠ濳hey just run against a dictionary.
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the password-hashing method used in OpenBSD uses an algorithm derived
from Blowfish that makes use of the slow key schedule; the idea is
that the extra computational effort required gives protection against
dictionary attacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowfish_%28cipher%29
thanks :-)
--Siju