diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index 5f7a83846b..a5f80ce19f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -1849,8 +1849,10 @@
 	</question>
 
 	<answer>
-	  <para>The default password format on &os; is to use
-	    <emphasis>MD5</emphasis>-based passwords.  These are
+	  <para>&os;&nbsp;7 and 8 use MD5 password hashing by
+	    default.  Recent versions
+	    of &os; use <emphasis>blf</emphasis> by default.
+	    These are
 	    believed to be more secure than the traditional &unix;
 	    password format, which used a scheme based on the
 	    <emphasis>DES</emphasis> algorithm.  DES passwords are still