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From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org>
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Subject: DES?
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Can someone explain what this will impact in normal use? Does this mean that
passwords will default to DES? I've dug around a little and I'm not seeing
where a default is set for passwords - my desktop right now is using sha512,
but if I had to guess I'd say it's because it was the crypt(3) default.

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs/516280

Save me from guessing! :) What is the scope and impact of this change?

Thanks.

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