Questions tagged [bcrypt]

bcrypt is a key derivation function for passwords designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher, and presented at USENIX in 1999. Besides incorporating a salt to protect against rainbow table attacks, bcrypt is an adaptive function: over time, the iteration count can be increased to make it slower, so it remains resistant to brute-force search attacks even with increasing computation power.

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Modern alternative for pam_userdb (for use with vsftpd)

Quite some years ago, I setup a vsftpd server with virtual users, according to some howtos (still) to be found on the internet, using pam_userdb. Like this: A file called /etc/pam.d/vsftpd.virtual: #%...
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Enable bcrypt hashes for /etc/shadow in RHEL, CentOS, or Amazon Linux

Is it possible to add bcrypt support for system accounts (e.g., in /etc/shadow) in Amazon Linux? (Which is in turn binary compatible with RHEL5 and CentOS 5) This only looks like a duplicate of this ...
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