Re: [Bcrypt-users] bcrypt in The Economist

[Liviu A. <lan...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Schmidt, Christian Thorge
<ct...@ra...> wrote:
> The article talks about the "bcrypt Hash" (1) function, not our beloved
> little blowfish encryption tool.
>
You're right! Sorry for the (understandable) confusion.


> 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.
>
Do you know some tutorials that explain how to do bcrypt-like file
encryption using openssl?

Regards
Liviu


> 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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