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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:43:15 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Raoul Schroeder <memphis_ms@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Default Cipher in OpenSSL
Message-ID:  <20010321124315.C5284@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3AB8EDF9.6CE41BC6@gmx.net>; from memphis_ms@gmx.net on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:07:53PM -0500
References:  <3AB8EDF9.6CE41BC6@gmx.net>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:07:53PM -0500, Raoul Schroeder wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>=20
> how can I change the default cipher in FreeBSD for everyone from DES to
> RC4 or something along those lines?

I think you may be confused here.  Are you talking about the password
algorithm used for passwords in /etc/master.passwd?  OpenSSL is not
involved in that (libcrypt is), and you have two choices: DES or MD5
(or Blowfish, compatible with OpenBSD, in -current).  See
login.conf(5) on recent versions of FreeBSD (the passwd_format login
capability).

Passwords are stored using a cryptographic hash, not a cipher.  A
cipher can be used to implement a hash (and vice versa), but they're
two different things.

Kris

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