Building a Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sat Jun 26 06:50:11 PDT 2004


"Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I have located what I feel is a very complete document on Building a
> Stable Secure FreeBSD Mail server (That happens to be the name of the Doc
> too. Go figure)
> 
> I am not sure what the age of this document is. In the document it reads:
> 
> "I like to change the default algorithm used when encrypting a user's
> password to the blowfish algorithm, as it provides the highest security at
> the greatest speed.
> 
> Is this an accurate statement? My current passwd_format is set to md5 and
> I thought md5 was like "Da Bomb"(Ok white guy trying to be funny here).
> 
> I am still pretty new, so I don't know the difference between these
> different algorithms. Any thoughts, comments, personal preferences (along
> with an understandable explanation would be nice) are appreciated.

As far as I know, Blowfish is the best encryption algorithm for this purpose
at this time, which (to my knowledge) is why OpenBSD uses it by default.

I don't believe it's the fastest, however, but I could be wrong there.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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