[SGVLUG] bcrypt alternative?

John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com
Tue Jun 5 15:54:15 PDT 2007


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"Sean O'Donnell" <sean at seanodonnell.com> writes:

> I found 'mcrypt' and wanted to perhaps give it a try, but I'm unable to
> compile it from source on either RHEL4 (as one generally expects) or
> Slackware 10.2 (surprisingly).

mcrypt is a Debian package.  Got a Debian system?  Install the package
and try it there.  According to the package description, it does
indeed do blowfish, which I gather is the encryption used by bcrypt.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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