Commit 2e04d6cc authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Document the new SHA256 and SHA512 password generation options 



Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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  *) 'openssl passwd' can now produce SHA256 and SHA512 based output,













     using the algorithm defined in













     https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt













     [Richard Levitte]



























 Changes between 1.0.2h and 1.1.0  [25 Aug 2016]





























  *) Windows command-line tool supports UTF-8 opt-in option for arguments

































doc/apps/passwd.pod



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[B<-crypt>]















[B<-1>]















[B<-apr1>]













[B<-5>]













[B<-6>]















[B<-salt> I<string>]















[B<-in> I<file>]















[B<-stdin>]










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Use the B<apr1> algorithm (Apache variant of the BSD algorithm).





























=item B<-5>



























=item B<-6>



























Use the B<SHA256> / B<SHA512> based algorithms defined by Ulrich Drepper.













See L<https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt>.





























=item B<-salt> I<string>































Use the specified salt.