[Bug 1349252] Re: crypt(3) lacks Blowfish support

[Marcus Bointon]

Please ignore my last comment. bcrypt is undoubtedly better than a
single round of SHA512 as a password hash (what I was on about), but
SHA512 is not the same thing as the multiple rounds used in SHA512-CRYPT
that's in libc and in Ulrich's paper.

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Title:
  crypt(3) lacks Blowfish support

Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  crypt(3) bundled with Ubuntu's GNU C Library supports MD5, DES, SHA256
  and SHA512 hashing methods, but lacks support for Blowfish (aka
  bcrypt).

  There is a patch available from Openwall:
  http://www.openwall.com/crypt/

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