Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:44:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41320 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security Message-ID: <201303290344.r2T3irgd027351@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Fri Mar 29 03:44:52 2013 New Revision: 41320 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41320 Log: Make the hashing section reflect reality Reviewed by: des Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Thu Mar 28 15:13:42 2013 (r41319) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Fri Mar 29 03:44:52 2013 (r41320) @@ -1084,8 +1084,9 @@ <title>Recognizing Your Crypt Mechanism</title> <para>Currently the library supports DES, MD5, Blowfish, SHA256, - and SHA512 hash functions. By default &os; uses MD5 to - encrypt passwords.</para> + and SHA512 hash functions. By default &os; 9.1 and later + uses SHA512 to encrypt passwords. Older versions use MD5 by + default.</para> <para>It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method &os; is set up to use. Examining the encrypted passwords in the
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