PHK's MD5 might not be slow enough anymore

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Dan Lukes <dan at obluda.cz> writes:
> Mike Andrews <mandrews at bit0.com> writes:
> > There is probably a login.conf knob to raise the default number of
> > rounds beyond 2^4.
> No. The standard way of password change flow trough pam_unix.c.
>
> It call crypt(new_pass, salt) where salt is pseudo-random sequence. As
> such salt doesn't start with a magic, the default algorithm is
> selected. If it si blowfish, then crypt_blowfish(key, salt) is called.

Mike is mostly right and you are mostly wrong.  The default algorithm is
indeed controlled by login.conf and auth.conf, although there is no way
to specify the number of rounds.

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