Document a known bug in the DES crypt cipher implementation which we're

not going to fix in order to stay compatible with legacy password data.
Nobody should use DES crypt anyway these days.
See http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:02.crypt.asc
for details about this bug.

Discussed with deraadt and beck about half a year ago (I'm pruning Ms
from my tree).

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
index 8415f28b9bc..3d9785fca97 100644
--- a/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
+++ b/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: crypt.3,v 1.28 2012/06/02 00:14:16 guenther Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: crypt.3,v 1.29 2012/11/30 13:51:11 stsp Exp $
 .\"
 .\" FreeSec: libcrypt
 .\"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 2 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 30 2012 $
 .Dt CRYPT 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -323,3 +323,7 @@ The
 function returns a pointer to static data, and subsequent calls to
 .Fn crypt
 will modify the same object.
+.Pp
+With DES hashing, passwords containing the byte 0x80 use less key entropy
+than other passwords.
+This is an implementation bug, not a bug in the DES cipher.