[Pkg-shadow-devel] Blowfish vs MD5 as default cipher

[Karl Schmidt]

This article :
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=377

Describes how to switch to blowfish for added security.  What I'm thinking is that if this is a true 
description of the current situation, shouldn't blowfish be the default setup?

If there is more to this story, please feel free to point me to it.

Please cc karl at xtronics.com as I'm not presently on list..

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