Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:49:31 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server Message-ID: <20040626094931.1bac7bb2.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1776a3885a58dea4d7ea.20040626010713.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <1776a3885a58dea4d7ea.20040626010713.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com>
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"Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis@dslextreme.com> wrote: > 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. As far as I know, Blowfish is the best encryption algorithm for this purpose at this time, which (to my knowledge) is why OpenBSD uses it by default. I don't believe it's the fastest, however, but I could be wrong there. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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