From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Help-wanted tasks for musl
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:58:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120820015854.GH16602@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120820013950.GC27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
* Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2012-08-19 21:39:50 -0400]:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:35:02AM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > it's not clear what the acceptable characters are..
> > originally the [a-zA-Z0-9./] is the base64 set used
>
> In all the other hashes we support, only the used base64 set is
> allowed. Anything else is treated as a fatal error. Is this wrong?
>
old des format accepts any char for salt
(except ':', '\n', '\0' and first char cannot be '_')
new des format (starting with '_')
and blowfish decode the salt so they
depend on the base64 set
> I agree it would be nicer to just pass the salt through the encryption
> algorithm as part of the input, but in practice they all decode it as
> a base64 number and use that number...
>
sha and md5 crypt does not decode the salt
it is directly passed to a hash function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-19 4:26 Rich Felker
2012-08-19 8:10 ` idunham
2012-08-19 16:18 ` William Haddon
2012-08-19 8:44 ` boris brezillon
2012-08-19 11:49 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-19 16:56 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-19 17:29 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-20 0:51 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-20 1:35 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-20 1:39 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-20 1:58 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2012-08-20 2:12 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-28 20:09 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-28 23:35 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-29 0:15 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-29 14:30 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-29 15:14 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-29 17:01 ` Rich Felker
2012-08-30 8:40 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-08-19 21:46 idunham
2012-08-19 22:19 ` Gregor Richards
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