Has there been any progress on this more than five year old topic? The glibc of the long time supported 18.04.3 LTS still has no support for BLF-CRYPT. I saw that from debian-side blowfish is still not supported but some distros add it by themselves. Why not ubuntu?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349252 Title: crypt(3) lacks Blowfish support Status in glibc package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: crypt(3) bundled with Ubuntu's GNU C Library supports MD5, DES, SHA256 and SHA512 hashing methods, but lacks support for Blowfish (aka bcrypt). There is a patch available from Openwall: http://www.openwall.com/crypt/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1349252/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
