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Feature #12962

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Improve default sha512 password hashing rounds

Added by Phil Wardt about 2 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

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Authentication
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Description

After this change: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10298
The default encryption for passwords is sha512

However, by default, sha512 only does 5000 rounds of encryption which is very weak
Increase rounds to 800k to provide same bcrypt default 10 rounds password resilience

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/ssnp35/260_default_password_hashing_changed_from_bcrypt/

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Updated by Jim Pingle about 2 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Duplicate
  • Assignee deleted (Jim Pingle)
  • Priority changed from Very High to Normal

Already covered by multiple other issues.

See: #12855, #12800, #12863

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