On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> We still have MD5 as our default password hash, even though known-hash
> attacks against MD5 are relatively easy these days.  We've supported
> SHA256 and SHA512 for many years now, so how about making SHA512 the
> default instead of MD5, like on most Linux distributions?
> 
> Index: etc/login.conf
> ===================================================================
> --- etc/login.conf      (revision 236616)
> +++ etc/login.conf      (working copy)
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  # AND SEMANTICS'' section of getcap(3) for more escape sequences).
> 
>  default:\
> -       :passwd_format=md5:\
> +       :passwd_format=sha512:\
>         :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
>         :welcome=/etc/motd:\
>         :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
> 

+1

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