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> On 25 Jul 2022, at 15:35, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> Mikhail Koliada wrote: |
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>> This idea has been fluctuating in my head for quite a while given |
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>> that the migration had happened a while ago [0] and some other |
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>> major distributions have already adopted yescrypt as their default algo |
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>> by now [1]. |
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> Please only do that based on proven merit and nothing else. |
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> Fedora or anyone else for that matter making a change is a truly |
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> terrible reason to take any action whatsoever, since other |
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> organizations are driven by /their/ interests - with Fedora in |
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> particular being driven by the business interests of Red Hat. |
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> I consider Gentoo a leader in many regards and it makes me really |
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> sad whenever Gentoo changes based on nothing more than "others did it". |
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A fair part of the motivation for the libxcrypt migration was allowing |
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use of tougher hashing algorithms like yescrypt. |
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While your concern may be valid in some contexts, it's |
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not what's happening here, as Rich notes. |
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Maybe zlogene's email should have explicitly stated |
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that yescrypt has desirable security properties, but it's |
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not being done simply because "Fedora did it". |
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> Thanks and kind regards |
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> //Peter |
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Best, |
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sam |
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