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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Todo for release?
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:53:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813215344.GB27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813213154.GI20243@port70.net>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:31:54PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2012-08-13 14:53:30 -0400]:
> > - MD5 and SHA crypt (nsz?)
> 
> i only have code for the hashes, not crypt
> 
> it seems these crypt schemes are fairly ugly
> i don't mind if their implementation is delayed

It looks like the API the hash functions provide matches closely what
the BSD crypt functions expect, so I think we could potentially just
use or adapt one of them..

> md5 based crypt is not recommended anymore
> http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html

Indeed. But is it used in existing Linux user databases on any
significant scale? If not, I agree we can just drop it.

> the sha2 based crypt seems to be designed recently
> and the spec has a public domain implementation
> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt

I'm confused by all the SHA names (1/2/256/512)...

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 18:53 Rich Felker
2012-08-13 21:31 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-13 21:53   ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-08-13 22:06     ` Solar Designer
2012-08-14 15:02       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-15  0:30         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-13 22:20   ` Solar Designer
2012-08-14  1:46     ` Rich Felker
2012-08-14  2:13       ` Solar Designer
2012-08-14  2:35         ` Rich Felker
2012-08-14  2:49           ` Solar Designer
2012-08-14  2:58             ` Rich Felker
2012-08-14  3:35               ` Solar Designer
2012-08-14  4:49                 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-15  4:08 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-15  8:55   ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-08-15 10:20     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-15 10:53       ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-08-15 13:10         ` John Spencer
2012-08-15 13:23           ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-08-15 13:32       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-15 14:36         ` Rich Felker
2012-08-17  9:49           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-17 12:10             ` Rich Felker
2012-08-22 17:45               ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-08-22 18:57                 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-22 19:15                   ` Daniel Cegiełka
2012-08-22 20:24                   ` Richard Pennington
2012-08-22 22:44                     ` Rich Felker
2012-08-15 12:36     ` Rich Felker
2012-08-15 12:57   ` Luca Barbato
2012-08-15 14:34     ` Rich Felker
2012-08-15 18:28       ` Luca Barbato
2012-08-15 18:35         ` Rich Felker
2012-08-15 21:25         ` Rich Felker
2012-08-16 17:11           ` Luca Barbato
2012-08-15 13:27   ` Richard Pennington
2012-08-15 22:44 ` boris brezillon

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