Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:15:18 -0400 From: Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com> To: ian ivy <sidetripping@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default password encryption method. Message-ID: <CAJcQMWfrVbDUOp0-Qi48V0kBrwrHx8P98XX7U3NASLY08RKEmA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAASvXNt7oT4g9YaNtMyheMkFyb_0ASfD-ErvCfJBRpuPqkrEwQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAASvXNt7oT4g9YaNtMyheMkFyb_0ASfD-ErvCfJBRpuPqkrEwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:10 AM, ian ivy <sidetripping@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > By default FreeBSD uses MD5 to encrypt passwords. MD5 is believed to be > more secure than e.g. DES but less than e.g. SHA512. Currently several > major Linux distributions, uses a SHA512 mechanism. Suse Linux also offers > a blowfish. > > Some Debian based distributions use MD5-based algorithm compatible with the > one > used by recent releases of FreeBSD - but mostly this variable (* > MD5_CRYPT_ENAB*) > is deprecated, and SHA512-based algorithm is used. > > Of course, in FreeBSD we can change the MD5 for example to BLF, > but, it will be not a better solution to use SHA512 by default? This has been discussed recently in the following thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/006271.html - Max
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