[SGVLUG] bcrypt alternative?

[Sean O'Donnell]

John E. Kreznar wrote:
> "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.  

I guess it's about time I put a Debian VM on our (sandbox) VMware ESX
Server.

> According to the package description, it does
> indeed do blowfish, which I gather is the encryption used by bcrypt.
> 

I'm aware that it does support the blowfish cipher, but when I mentioned
that yesterday in #crypto, someone suggested that I may be bound to
bcrypt (only) due to possible headers (created by/for bcrypt) that
mcrypt may not be able to interpret, thus leaving me SOL.

I guess I'll give debian + mcrypt a try and see how that goes.

Thanks, John.

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