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From: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching default password hashes from sha512 to yescrypt
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 22:31:21
Message-Id: Yt8ZsLRUr+AtQmMA@eversor
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching default password hashes from sha512 to yescrypt by Mike Gilbert
1 On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 08:55:14PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 3:10 PM Mikhail Koliada <zlogene@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Hello!
5 > >
6 > > This idea has been fluctuating in my head for quite a while given that the migration had happened
7 > > a while ago [0] and some other major distributions have already adopted yescrypt as their default algo
8 > > by now [1]. For us switching is as easy as changing the default use flag in pambase and rehashing the password
9 > > with the ‘passwd’ call (a news item will be required).
10 > >
11 > > What do you think?
12 >
13 > Seems like a reasonable idea to me.
14
15 Just giving my +1 to that, no strong opinion but reading about it
16 sounds like a reasonable choice to me.
17
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19 ionen

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