svn commit: r41320 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 29 03:44:53 UTC 2013
Author: eadler
Date: Fri Mar 29 03:44:52 2013
New Revision: 41320
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41320
Log:
Make the hashing section reflect reality
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Thu Mar 28 15:13:42 2013 (r41319)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml Fri Mar 29 03:44:52 2013 (r41320)
@@ -1084,8 +1084,9 @@
<title>Recognizing Your Crypt Mechanism</title>
<para>Currently the library supports DES, MD5, Blowfish, SHA256,
- and SHA512 hash functions. By default &os; uses MD5 to
- encrypt passwords.</para>
+ and SHA512 hash functions. By default &os; 9.1 and later
+ uses SHA512 to encrypt passwords. Older versions use MD5 by
+ default.</para>
<para>It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method &os;
is set up to use. Examining the encrypted passwords in the
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