Date: 20 Jun 2002 16:24:30 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "'Bill Moran'" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Password security Message-ID: <xzpbsa6f2ox.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <001401c21860$e02392f0$77fe180c@armageddon> References: <001401c21860$e02392f0$77fe180c@armageddon>
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"Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> writes: > So, have you changed the hash from DES to something different? If not, > you're still dealing with an 8 character limit. Certainly the length at > this point could be considered arbitrary, but only the first 8 > characters count. To repeat what I wrote in my previous mail: "By default, FreeBSD uses an MD5-based hash, and supports passwords of arbitrary length." DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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