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Does glibc2 version of the crypt function still use DES for alternative hashing methods?

I'm trying to understand how typical Linux distributions generate the password field for entries in /etc/shadow. I can't figure out what encryption algorithm is being used to produce the encrypted ...
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Can Solaris' shadow hashes be created by better algorithms than the default DES-based hash?

By default, Solaris uses Traditional DES to encrypt password hashes in the shadow file. Is there a way to harden the security by changing this default behaviour and make it to be hashed using a ...