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Make the hashing section reflect reality

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Reviewed by:	des
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
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Eitan Adler 2013-03-29 03:44:52 +00:00
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<title>Recognizing Your Crypt Mechanism</title>
<para>Currently the library supports DES, MD5, Blowfish, SHA256,
and SHA512 hash functions. By default &os; uses MD5 to
encrypt passwords.</para>
and SHA512 hash functions. By default &os;&nbsp;9.1 and later
uses SHA512 to encrypt passwords. Older versions use MD5 by
default.</para>
<para>It is pretty easy to identify which encryption method &os;
is set up to use. Examining the encrypted passwords in the