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Re: Revisiting the SHA1 default password hash



--On Friday, February 24, 2017 8:32 PM +0000 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

Yes, but there should be something stronger.

How about moving ./contrib/slapd-modules/passwd/pbkdf2 to core?

Yeah at this point we can probably bypass SHA2 and just go straight to
SHA3. There's a lot of crypto software out there already using it. pbkdf2
is still using SHA2.

Worthwhile to read over: <https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/02/how-safely-store-password-in-2016>

libsodium's a pretty trivial compile, I added it to Zimbra a while back for another project.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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