On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:10 AM, ian ivy 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
> major Linux distributions, uses a SHA512 mechanism. Suse Linux also offers
> a blowfish.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:51 AM, 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
2009/12/3 Henrique Araujo :
> Em Qui, 2009-12-03 às 09:30 +, FreeBSD Security Advisories escreveu:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> =
>> FreeBSD-SA-09:16.rtld
