FreeBSD maximum password length

[Mark Felder]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:52:48 -0500, Teske, Devin  
<Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:

> Is sha512 the highest it goes in our system?

Not sure what the limitations are. I know OpenBSD uses blowfish and I have  
been using that on older FreeBSD servers as a workaround. I think that  
OpenBSD uses a high number of rounds on their blowfish to make brute  
forces more difficult because of how slow it gets.