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 comp
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.
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On Jun 19, 2012 3:16 PM, "Maxim Khitrov" wrote:
>
> 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,
Hi,
Thanks a lot of looking into this!
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?
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/7.
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?
>
> http://svnweb.
On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2:15:54 pm Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot of looking into this!
>
> 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 comm
