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R VIDYA LAKSHMI updated DERBY-3014:
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Attachment: DERBY-3014.diff
Instead of returning null, we made the function to return " ******* " in
accordance with the previous comment.
Please refer the diff file for further information.
> Make SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_GET_DATABASE_PROPERTY('derby.user.<username>') return
> NULL instead of the hash value of the password
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> Key: DERBY-3014
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3014
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Security
> Reporter: Daniel John Debrunner
> Assignee: R VIDYA LAKSHMI
> Attachments: DERBY-3014.diff
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> Increases security by providing less information to any attacker. The current
> returned hash value could be used in an off-line dictionary based attack to
> find a valid password.
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