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Date:      Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:48:43 +0200
From:      "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Default password hash
Message-ID:  <4FD210CB.6030000@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAJcQMWdMp-ATdTzq6CNcy6dAUzZ98w2snT=u_cM=qLvQznAn_w@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <86r4tqotjo.fsf@ds4.des.no> <CAJcQMWdMp-ATdTzq6CNcy6dAUzZ98w2snT=u_cM=qLvQznAn_w@mail.gmail.com>

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On 06/08/12 15:06, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
>> We still have MD5 as our default password hash, even though known-hash
>> attacks against MD5 are relatively easy these days.  We've supported
>> SHA256 and SHA512 for many years now, so how about making SHA512 the
>> default instead of MD5, like on most Linux distributions?
> 
> If SHA-2 hashes have been supported for many years, why haven't the
> man pages been updated? login.conf(5) on 9.0-RELEASE still only lists
> "des", "md5", and "blf". I've been using the latter on my systems.
> 
> - Max
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I asked similar things once:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2009-January/005072.html

I use "blf" since then. I hear the first time FreeBSD is supporting
SHA256 and SHA512.


Oliver



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