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On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:53:03 +0200
Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net> wrote:

> * orc <orc@sibserver.ru> [2012-08-08 22:30:01 +0800]:
> > While I experimented with musl-enabled system I implemented another
> > password hashing algorithm in musl (because musl had only des
> > encryption with max. 8 password chars) based on skein hash. I also
> > separately
> 
> why not use a known password-based key derivation function?
> 
> 
> musl shouldn't do too much crypto experiments, but select
> something that's reasonable and already available
> (i wouldn't do musl specific crypto api)
> 
> 
> (at some point it may be reasonable to provide alternative
> apis for things that are broken in posix or just missing
> but those should go into a separate lib and we are not there
> yet)
> 

This was just my experiment, since there were no news about bcrypt,
only plans.