Bug 274044

Summary:	FreeBSD Handbook: crypt(3) algorithms: Handbook consistency with the manual page
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	carlavilla, doc
Priority:	---	Keywords:	needs-patch
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
URL:	https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3&manpath=freebsd-release
See Also:	https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/258

Description Graham Perrin 2023-09-23 11:06:17 UTC

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/book/#security-passwords>

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/security/_index.adoc#23-password-hashes>: 

> … FreeBSD supports the DES, MD5, SHA256, SHA512, and Blowfish hash algorithms 
> in its crypt() library. …


<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/book/#_password_formats>

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/network-servers/_index.adoc#49-password-formats>:

> … DES format for password hashing. Other possible values include 
> blf for Blowfish, md5 for MD5, sha256 and sha512 for SHA-256 and 
> SHA-512 respectively. For more information and the up to date list of 
> what is available on your system, consult the man:crypt[3] manpage. …


<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3&manpath=freebsd-release#DESCRIPTION> describes a supported algorithm that is not mentioned in the Handbook: 

    NT-Hash

Comment 1 Sergio Carlavilla Delgado freebsd_committer

2023-09-27 17:23:44 UTC

I'm gonna close this PR as overcome by events.
Right now the chapter says something more "generic".