From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 20 7:24:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E02B37B407 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id F1E9B5361; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:24:30 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Eric F Crist" Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" , "'Bill Moran'" , Subject: Re: Password security References: <001401c21860$e02392f0$77fe180c@armageddon> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Jun 2002 16:24:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <001401c21860$e02392f0$77fe180c@armageddon> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Eric F Crist" 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