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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:28:42 -0500
From:      Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
To:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Feature Proposal: 'rounds' tuneables for crypt() algorithms
Message-ID:  <530FE64A.4090808@allanjude.com>

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Currently, you can change the password hashing algorithm used by crypt()
with the passwd_format in /etc/login.conf

However, as far as I could find, you cannot change the number of
'rounds', the dynamic adjustment factor using in bcrypt, and
sha256crypt, and sha512crypt.

bcrypt uses a log number, the default is 4 (so 2^4 rounds). The minimum
is currently 4, and the maximum 31

sha256 and sha512crypt default to 5000, with a minimum of 1000 and a
maximum of 999999999

OpenBSD implements this in login.conf with 'localcipher' similar to our
'passwd_format', except it takes an optional 2nd parameter, the number
of log2() rounds.

Arch implements this in pam_unix with rounds=3D

For compatibility, it might make most sense to use a separate variable
rather than adding the optional parameter to the existing passwd_format,
so older boxes do not choke on it.

Thoughts?

--=20
Allan Jude


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