Feature Proposal: Transparent upgrade of crypt() algorithms

Allan Jude freebsd at allanjude.com
Fri Mar 7 20:32:10 UTC 2014


On 2014-03-07 11:13, A.J. Kehoe IV (Nanoman) wrote:
> Allan Jude wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Honestly, my use case is just silently upgrading the strength of the
>> hashing algorithm (when combined with my other feature request).
>> Updating my bcrypt hashes from $2a$04$ to $2b$12$ or something. Same
>> applies for the default sha512, maybe I want to update to rounds=15000
> 
> Like this?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=182518
> 
> Request for comments:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20140106205156.GD4903
> 

This looks like what we wanted. In the feedback you talked about some
changes to your patch required to make it work, is there any progress on
those?

-- 
Allan Jude

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