Hi Björn, Am Montag, den 23.09.2019, 12:07 +0200 schrieb Björn Esser: > From: Björn Esser <[email protected]> > > Also implement the needed logic to (optionally) replace > the libcrypt from the selected libc with libxcrypt. > > libxcrypt is a modern library for one-way hashing of passwords. > It supports a wide variety of both modern and historical hashing > methods: yescrypt, gost-yescrypt, scrypt, bcrypt, sha512crypt, > sha256crypt, md5crypt, SunMD5, sha1crypt, NT, bsdicrypt, bigcrypt, > and descrypt. It provides the traditional Unix crypt and crypt_r > interfaces, as well as a set of extended interfaces pioneered by > Openwall Linux, crypt_rn, crypt_ra, crypt_gensalt, crypt_gensalt_rn, > and crypt_gensalt_ra. > > libxcrypt is intended to be used by login(1), passwd(1), and other > similar programs; that is, to hash a small number of passwords > during an interactive authentication dialogue with a human. It is > not suitable for use in bulk password-cracking applications, or in > any other situation where speed is more important than careful > handling of sensitive data. However, it is intended to be fast and > lightweight enough for use in servers that must field thousands of > login attempts per minute. > > Signed-off-by: Björn Esser <[email protected]> > ---
It would be nice to have a log of changes between the patch revisions here to make it easier for reviewers to tell what changed from the last submission. Regards, Lucas _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
