From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1401 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 0.9.3 released Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:58:40 +0200 Message-ID: <501DEF70.6060900@barfooze.de> References: <20120803023633.GG544@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <9251.50.0.229.11.1344128449.squirrel@lavabit.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344139041 27602 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2012 03:57:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 03:57:21 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1402-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Aug 05 05:57:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sxrxw-0004ed-1K for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:57:20 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32113 invoked by uid 550); 5 Aug 2012 03:57:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 32105 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2012 03:57:19 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Mail/1.0 In-Reply-To: <9251.50.0.229.11.1344128449.squirrel@lavabit.com> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1401 Archived-At: On 08/05/2012 03:00 AM, idunham@lavabit.com wrote: > >> I'd also like to finish and integrate the rest of rdp's porting work >> (mips64, ppc, and microblaze) and possibly get an x32 (32-bit ABI on >> x86_64) port underway, and integrate additional hash function support >> (blowfish, sha, md5) for crypt. > All of these sound good. > I'm not sure about whether many people would be interested in x32, though?... x32 is the latest hype and a lot of work has recently been put into toolchain, kernel and debugger support. this is probably a good opportunity to get the attention of early adopters. > Something other than standard crypt (isn't that DES, which can be cracked > in a day on the right machine?) would be one of the more interesting ones > from my perspective. Remembering the recent test results, I'd be hoping > for bcrypt as well (it's where OpenCL cracking gets the least benefit). which test results are you referring to ? for my part, i think simple DES crypt() in the libc is sufficient. busybox 1.20+ ships with a decent set of hash algos to use for login, so the libc crypt code isnt used anyway.