No it's not the same use bcrypt
On May 30, 2017 9:32:13 PM GMT+02:00, Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu> wrote:
>My /etc/login.conf file has "blowfish,a" as the value for localciper in
>the default class.
>
>The login.conf(5) man page sys this about the "localcipher" capability:
>
>localcipher string blowfish,a The cipher to use for
> encrypting passwords. Refer
> to crypt_newhash(3) for
> possible values.
>
>
>The crypt_newhash(3) man page mentions only this value:
>
>``bcrypt,<rounds>''
> The bcrypt algorithm, where the value of rounds can be between 4
> and 31 and specifies the base 2 logarithm of the number of
> rounds. The special rounds value `a' automatically selects
> rounds based on system performance.
>
>
>Are "blowfish,a" and "bcrypt,a" the same?
>
>Allan
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