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Bug#149452: libc: Need OpenBSD's bcrypt password hashing support for dovecot



Please fix your line length.

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 07:33:49PM -0700, Joel Lopes Da Silva wrote:
> I would like to use bcrypt (BLF-CRYPT) for my password scheme in Dovecot, but I can't because bcrypt support doesn't seem to have been integrated into the Debian libc.

Why do you want bcrypt? glibc support sha256 und sha512, which uses
several thousand rounds of hashing and should be good enough.

> Here's the list of supported password schemes by Dovecot on my Debian Wheezy machine:
> # doveadm pw -l
> CRYPT MD5 MD5-CRYPT SHA SHA1 SHA256 SHA512 SMD5 SSHA SSHA256 SSHA512 PLAIN CLEARTEXT PLAIN-TRUNC CRAM-MD5 HMAC-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN-MD4 PLAIN-MD5 LDAP-MD5 LANMAN NTLM OTP SKEY RPA SHA256-CRYPT SHA512-CRYPT 

Please explain what this should tell us.

Bastian

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