freebsd security - Jan 2011 - Add SHA-256/512 hash algorithm to crypt(3) (kern/124164)

Hello all,

Is there any chance that kern/124164 [1] could be looked at? The included patch
has been updated by KIMURA Yasuhiro for 8.1R, and so hopefully would be okay for
8.3R (and maybe even -CURRENT).

The functionality would be very helpful for NIS- and LDAP-based environments, as
Linux and even Solaris support these newer algorithms, and so when they do a
(yp)passwd the new hashes are often used which cause interoperability issues?not
to mention the usefulness of of stronger hashes. :)

Thanks for any info (and please CC, as I'm not subscribed).

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/124164

David Magda writes:
> Is there any chance that kern/124164 [1] could be looked at? The
> included patch has been updated by KIMURA Yasuhiro for 8.1R, and so
> hopefully would be okay for 8.3R (and maybe even -CURRENT).
I've taken this. It will go in CURRENT first. 8.3 seems like a
reasonable later merge.

M
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