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f : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 23 June 2012 • 9:59PM -0400

Re: changing md5 hashed for sha
by Christopher J. Ruwe

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On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:40:51 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojt...> wrote:

> > For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has
> > been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the
> > sense of being more expensive to crack.
>
> is md5 that easy to crack?

It has been discussed recently, cf
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/006271.html
or virtually the first half of
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2012-June/thread.html

Cheers,
--
Christopher
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