docs/177215: FreeBSD uses SHA512 and no more MD5 for encrypting passwords

[Olivier Cochard-Labbe]

>Number:         177215
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD uses SHA512 and no more MD5 for encrypting passwords
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 22 00:10:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Olivier Cochard-Labbe
>Release:        9.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
BSD Router Project
>Environment:
FreeBSD laptop.bsdrp.net 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
FreeBSD 9.1 uses SHA512 and not MD5 for encrypting passwords.
But chapter 15.4.1 "Recognizing Your Crypt Mechanism" still indicate MD5.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Applying the patch.

Patch attached with submission follows:

--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml.orig	2013-03-22 00:57:02.000000000 +0100
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.xml	2013-03-22 00:59:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@
       <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
+	and SHA512 hash functions.  By default &os; uses SHA512 to
 	encrypt passwords.</para>
 
       <para>It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method &os;


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