On Jun 19, 2012 5:15 PM, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 02:46:19PM +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Author: des > > Date: Tue Jun 19 14:46:18 2012 > > New Revision: 237269 > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/237269 > > > > Log: > > Switch the default password hash from md5 to sha512. > > Pardon my possible unawareness, but was this change discussed anywhere?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/006271.html > 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 perfomance problems? Why would you want password matching to be fast? That makes brute-forcing easier. Chris _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
