Hello,
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.
Some Debian based distributions use MD5-based algorithm
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On Jun 19, 2012 3:16 PM, Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:10 AM, ian ivy sidetripp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
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
On 19 Jun 2012, at 19:15, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
On 18/06/12 22:37, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
Note that this is ONLY for FreeBSD 8.1. Other branches are OK.
Having seen the correct fix now, I'm starting to wonder if the commit to
RELENG_7_4 was really okay too?