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Cc: Damian Weber <dweber@htw-saarland.de>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Default password hash
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Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> writes:
> BTW Solaris 10 and 11 support our Blowfish algorithm, Solaris 10 >=3D 10/=
08
> supports SHA256 and SHA512 and SHA256 was mad the default algorithm in
> Solaris 11.
> Some Linux variants support Blowfish and from glibc 2.7 on they have
> support for SHA256 and SHA512.
>
> So the least common denominator if we want to use a compatible format is
> SHA256/SHA512.

SHA512 is the default in RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu.  I believe
SUSE uses Blowfish, but I'm not sure.

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