On 6/19/2012 10:10 AM, ian ivy wrote: > By default FreeBSD uses MD5 to encrypt passwords. MD5 is believed to be > more secure than e.g. DES but less than e.g. SHA512. Currently several > major Linux distributions, uses a SHA512 mechanism. Suse Linux also offers > a blowfish.
A late followup to this thread, but there was a decent fleshed out article on this issue http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assault/ There are a few caveats/clarifications in the comments, but pretty good overall for a non hardcore crypto audience. ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, [email protected] Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
