On 27 February 2014 20:14, Allan Jude <free...@allanjude.com> wrote: > With r262501 > (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=262501) importing > the upgraded bcrypt from OpenBSD and eventually changing the default > identifier for bcrypt to $2b$ it reminded me of a feature that is often > seen in Forum software and other web apps. > > Transparent algorithm upgrade. ...
I would strongly support this > I think Nick's point is you do want passwords using the "old" hash to expire are some point if they haven't been auto-converted. Password expiry is an orthogonal issue and should be up to administrator policy. > This might actually be more applicable with my next suggestion, exposing > tuneables to control the number of rounds for bcrypt and sha512crypt. As > this would make it easy to upgrade all existing bcrypt/sha512crypt > hashes from the default number of rounds (10^4 and 5000 respectively) to > higher values. Another orthogonal issue: I'd like to see the results of the password hashing competition (see: https://password-hashing.net/. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
