Re: News Draft: Default password hashing algorithm changed to yescrypt

2023-09-19 Thread David Runge
On 2023-09-19 09:43:17 (+0200), David Runge wrote: I have been asked by Kristian Klausen (offlist) to add information on the motivation for using yescrypt as new default. I propose this update: > ```markdown > With shadow >= `4.14.0`, Arch Linux's default password hashing algorithm > changed from

News Draft: Default password hashing algorithm changed to yescrypt

2023-09-19 Thread David Runge
Hi all, with shadow 4.14.0 I introduced some changes to default password hashing algorithms and would like to post the following on the website once the relevant packages (filesystem, pambase, shadow) move to [core]: ```markdown With shadow >= `4.14.0`, Arch Linux's default password hashing algor