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It's bad, but it's not that bad. SHA is widely supported, and not that bad, yet.

Also this is protecting desktop computers, where cracking hashes is not a common security problem. Getting the machine stolen in starbucks is probably much more common for this type of machine.



Macs are not used exclusively as desktops.


No exclusively, no. But massively. I'd guess, what 90%, of OSX installs are desktop/laptop/residential market/


It would be interesting to see if this was possible in OSX Lion Server.


Server is no longer a separate product. I have Server installed on this desktop and the example command works as described.




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