Re: [Bcrypt-users] bcrypt in The Economist

[Schmidt, C. T. <ct...@ra...>]

The article talks about the "bcrypt Hash" (1) function, not our beloved
little blowfish encryption tool.

And sadly, bcrypt seems to be unmaintained. Everything it does openssl (2)
can do too, and better/more "open". bcrypt appears to be used mainly
because there are binaries for all three major OSes readily available and
the learning curve (if so to speak) to use it is low(er) then openssl's.

Does anyone know the part of the code where bcrypt generates the actual key
used to blowfish-encrypt the file from the password given?

Regards,
 Christian.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
(2) http://www.openssl.org/


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Liviu Andronic <lan...@gm...>wrote:

> Dear all
> You may be curious to know that 'bcrypt' was recently mentioned in a
> The Economist article [1].
> [1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/06/password-theft
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
> PS Is there *any* development still going on on bcrypt? It seems like
> a very nice utility, which unfortunately contains bugs that were
> reported over the last decade or so.
>
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