Re: Default password hash

From: Dimitry Andric <dim_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:28:30 +0200
On 2012-06-09 09:43, O. Hartmann wrote:
> On 06/08/12 14:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> We still have MD5 as our default password hash, even though known-hash
>> attacks against MD5 are relatively easy these days.  We've supported
>> SHA256 and SHA512 for many years now, so how about making SHA512 the
>> default instead of MD5, like on most Linux distributions?
...
> The manpage for login.conf also needs an update. I checked this morning
> and found that thye manpage doesn't even mention hashes apart from des,
> md5 and blf.

Dag-Erling fixed this just yesterday :)

http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/236751
Received on Sat Jun 09 2012 - 07:28:25 UTC

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