On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:21:13PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > On Jun 19, 2012 5:15 PM, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Pardon my possible unawareness, but was this change discussed anywhere? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/006271.html
Thanks for the link, I didn't check -security@ for some reason. > > I understand the rationale to move away from MD5, but reasons for SHA512 > > seem moot. I've personally had been using Blowfish for password hashes > > since OpenBSD switched to it, for example, as fast and apparently reliable > > hash. Is there anything wrong with it? Why SHA512 is clear winner here? > > FWIW, ports use SHA256 for now. Could it be that switch to SHA512 will > > impose performance problems? > > Why would you want password matching to be fast? That makes brute-forcing > easier. Maybe I don't. I just want to know if I should switch from Blowfish to SHA512. It seems that the former is quite popular judging from discussion link given above. It also seems that des@' rationale for the switch boils down to "I vastly prefer sha512 to blf, as that is what the rest of the world uses." If there's nothing wrong with Blowfish, I guess I'll stick to it as I prefer compatibility among *BSD to some weird Unix clones. :-) ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
