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Enforcing password strength

Posted Oct 14, 2011 17:03 UTC (Fri) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
In reply to: Enforcing password strength by skvidal
Parent article: Enforcing password strength

Yup, the $6$ password format is about the best thing going right now. The $2a$ bcrypt algorithm is good too, but not as widely supported on Linux.

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