From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 08:07:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992B316A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.dslextreme.com (mail5.dslextreme.com [66.51.199.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4851443D54 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmlewis@dslextreme.com) Received: (qmail 6898 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2004 08:07:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.dslextreme.com) (66.51.199.92) by 192.168.8.93 with SMTP; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:12 +0000 Message-ID: <1776a3885a58dea4d7ea.20040626010713.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:07:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joshua Lewis" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: DSL Extreme Webmail (www.dslextreme.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:07:15 -0000 I have located what I feel is a very complete document on Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server (That happens to be the name of the Doc too. Go figure) I am not sure what the age of this document is. In the document it reads: "I like to change the default algorithm used when encrypting a user's password to the blowfish algorithm, as it provides the highest security at the greatest speed. Is this an accurate statement? My current passwd_format is set to md5 and I thought md5 was like "Da Bomb"(Ok white guy trying to be funny here). I am still pretty new, so I don't know the difference between these different algorithms. Any thoughts, comments, personal preferences (along with an understandable explanation would be nice) are appreciated. Thank you, Joshua Lewis