Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:54:15 +0200 From: Jan Wagner <jan.wagner@de.tiscali.com> To: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password encoding Message-ID: <20020926125415.B4034@de.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <20020926124450.A18244@de.tiscali.com>; from jan.wagner@de.tiscali.com on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:44:50PM %2B0200 References: <200209260922.g8Q9MYR23427@sequel.rsm.ru> <20020926095550.GB10763@isnic.is> <20020926124450.A18244@de.tiscali.com>
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... arg! i forgott, maybe you should also take a look at
http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/ccrypt/
"ccrypt is a utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams."
"It was designed as a replacement for the standard unix crypt utility..."
greets jw
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:44:50PM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:44:50 +0200
> From: Jan Wagner <jan.wagner@de.tiscali.com>
> To: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Password encoding
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
> In-Reply-To: <20020926095550.GB10763@isnic.is>; from oli@isnic.is on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:55:50AM +0000
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> Part of man :
>
>
> The algorithm used will depend upon whether crypt_set_format() has been
> called and whether a global default format has been specified. Unless a
> global default has been specified or crypt_set_format() has set the for-
> mat to something else, the built-in default format is used. This is cur-
> rently DES if it is available, or MD5 if not.
>
> How the salt is used will depend upon the algorithm for the hash. For
> best results, specify at least two characters of salt.
>
> The crypt_get_format() function returns a constant string that represents
> the name of the algorithm currently used. Valid values are `des', `blf'
> and `md5'.
>
> The crypt_set_format() function sets the default encoding format accord-
> ing to the supplied string.
>
> The global default format can be set using the /etc/auth.conf file using
> the `crypt_format' property.
>
> ...
>
> greets jw
>
> ps. man : (man auth.conf) && man 3 crypt && man 3 auth_getval(!!)
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:55:50AM +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:55:50 +0000
> > From: Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
> > To: Dmitry Agafonov <aga@rsm.ru>
> > Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Password encoding
> > In-Reply-To: <200209260922.g8Q9MYR23427@sequel.rsm.ru>
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> >
> > Dmitry,
> > You should be able to set it in /etc/auth.conf, but that doesn't work for me.
> >
> > You can instead run crypt_set_format("md5") to set the default for your prog
> > to md5 or blf for blowfish.
> >
> > You could also make sure that your salts start with $<digit>$ wich would then
> > set the algorithm used in encryption, more info on this in the crypt(3) manpage.
> >
> > /Oli
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Dmitry Agafonov wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, how about more common question. How do I ask system crypt() to use MD5
> > > by default? /etc/make.conf or such?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dmitry
> > >
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