Re: A question about passwords and login/authentication

Pavol Luptak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Roman L. Daszczyszak II wrote:
> I have heard that many *nix flavors used to default to using DES as
> their password storage algorithm, but recently many Linux flavors tend
> to use MD5 hashes instead, which are more secure to brute force attacks.

Try blowfish instead MD5
http://www.thkukuk.de/pam/pam_unix2
Available in the most Linux distributions.

Pavol
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