DES?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org> writes:
> Can someone explain what this will impact in normal use? Does this
> mean that passwords will default to DES?

No, the default setting for user passwords is in login.conf and is still
SHA-512.  The hardcoded default only applies to programs that use
crypt(3) for other purposes and do not call crypt_set_format(3) first.
See https://bugs.freebsd.org/192277 for details and examples of affected
applications.

DES
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