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Subject: Re: Default password hash
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:51:55 +0200
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> We still have MD5 as our default password hash, even though known-hash
> attacks against MD5 are relatively easy these days. =20

Are any of those attacks relevant to salted passwords even with a
single MD5 hash, let alone FreeBSD's complicated iterative algorithm?=20
=20
 > 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?

I think the most important consideration is which is most resistant to
brute force dictionary attack with GPUs. From a quick look at the code
SHA512 looks to have 5000 rounds compared to MD5's 1000, but it's not
so easy to compare with Blowfish.=20