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Re: favicon.ico in httpd
- To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
- Subject: Re: favicon.ico in httpd
- From: Seth Arnold <sarnold_(_at_)_willamette_(_dot_)_edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:43:05 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
* John Lockard <jlockard_(_at_)_umich_(_dot_)_edu> [001121 08:40]:
> What ever happened to that damned cool daemon that OpenBSD use to have
> and why has OpenBSD rallied around the mascot for an encryption
> algorithm?
Because the passwords on OpenBSD machines are encrypted using blowfish
rather than other methods that are more easily vulnerable to brute-force
searching for passwords.
Plus, the blowfish is very much a `go away' animal. And that is what the
``Welcome to OpenBSD'' login banner says. :)
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