Hi -
I've made a working implementation of the Blowfish algorithm in Pharo, a partially broken implementation of Bcrypt in Pharo, and a reliable way to access the linux crypt library using FFI in Pharo on linux.
At the moment it takes about 25 seconds to hash a password using my Bcrypt implementation in Pharo, which is about 50x too long. So I'm going to try to get a FFI version put together or just use SHA512 from the linux crypt library. I have learned a lot but don't expect to fix the improper hashing as I don't think the fix would cause a massive speed up. I think the hashing error is probably an off-by-one error in an array index in the BCrypt class. Ruby, Python, Lisp, PHP all access a C or Java library for bcrypt which probably should have told me something.
I could either make a SqueakSource repository for all this or put it in the Cryptography package. Or I can email anyone the mcz files off list that would like them.
Let me know how to proceed when you get a chance.
Thanks
Paul