On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:36:43PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I am rather late to this thread...
> > 
> > On Thursday 15 October 2015 15:46:47, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> > > > > Are there more password ciphers planned for the future e.g
> > > > > sha256 and sha512?>
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > > No, we will not be adding those.
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > > Those simple hashes do not provide the future-proof,
> > > > high-cost-to-crack features of bcrypt, which has made it
> > > > successful as industry staple. The dumb hashes even arrived years
> > > > after bcrypt, seems likely the result of choosing ideas "not
> > > > invented by openbsd"
> > > 
> > > Ouch!  And I have not seen any other upcoming ciphers
> > > mentioned.  These seem to be state of the art in the Linux world :/
> > 
> > ... but if anyone wants to add their voice to 
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16814 , maybe glibc 
> > could be made to reconsider bcrypt. AFAIK, glibc upstream is mostly 
> > different people now than when they added sha2 password hashes.
> 
> Good luck -- a lot of 'IBO' resistance runs in those circles.

What means 'IBO'?

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