[Fedora-directory-users] Default Password Encryption Scheme

Chun Tat David Chu beyonddc.storage at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 14:54:10 UTC 2009


Rich, thanks for your info.

I have one more question. Is the salt used for the SSHA generated every time
when a new user is added into the LDAP?  What I meant is that there is an
unique salt generated per user password, am I correct?

Thanks,

David

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com>wrote:

> Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just curious, the default password encryption scheme for LDAP is SSHA.
>> What is the number of bits it is using?  Is it SSSH256, SSSH384, SSSH512?
>>
> It's the SHA-1 140 bits algorithm
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
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