-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2018-c255fdcdaa 2018-10-30 17:13:37.321688 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libxcrypt Product : Fedora 29 Version : 4.2.2 Release : 1.fc29 URL : https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt Summary : Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others Description : libxcrypt is a modern library for one-way hashing of passwords. It supports a wide variety of both modern and historical hashing methods: yescrypt, bcrypt, SHA-2-512, SHA-2-256, SHA-1, MD5 (two variants), DES (three variants), and NTHASH. It provides the traditional Unix crypt and crypt_r interfaces, as well as a set of extended interfaces pioneered by Openwall Linux, crypt_rn, crypt_ra, crypt_gensalt, crypt_gensalt_rn, and crypt_gensalt_ra.
libxcrypt is intended to be used by login(1), passwd(1), and other similar applications; that is, to hash a small number of passwords during an interactive authentication dialogue with a human. It is not suitable for use in bulk password-cracking applications, or in any other situation where speed is more important than careful handling of sensitive data. However, it is intended to be fast and lightweight enough for use in servers that must field thousands of login attempts per minute.
This version of the library does not provide the legacy API functions that have been provided by glibc's libcrypt.so.1.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
- New upstream release -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Thu Oct 18 2018 Bj��rn Esser besser82@fedoraproject.org - 4.2.2-1 - New upstream release --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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