On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Kurt Seifried wrote:
I guess it's time to replace crypt() with a more modern algorithm. OpenBSD uses eks-Blowfish, which seems to do the job wonderfully. Would it be possible to implement this in SuSE Linux? I guess with PAM this should not be too much work. Also I'd think that when implementing it in PAM as an option there should not be any serious compatibility problems. Did anybody try this yet? If not I'm willing to invest some time in it in the near future...
RedHat moved to MD5 quite some time ago. I'm rather shocked SuSE hasn't.
I'd prefer md5 too. What about the upcoming 7.0 version though? Does that still use crypt or md5? Maybe someone from SuSE can inform us. Or should those of us that want more protection do it via PAM?
Cheers! Yuri.
-Kurt
Stefan