Thanks for the clarification!

Bhaskar


On 8/22/08, David Sean Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Bhaskar Roy wrote:
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> So it seems, Jetspeed password can't be recovered.
>>
>> Is that true?
>>
>> I believe what Ate said is this:
>
>  As I described before, you can only recover passwords which were encoded
>>> by
>>> the PBEPasswordTool itself, e.g. by leveraging and configuring the
>>> PBEPasswordService (which extends PBEPasswordTool) as
>>> CredentialPasswordEncoder for Jetspeed (defined in Spring assembly file
>>> security-spi-atn.xml).
>>>
>>> If you have used the default configured
>>> MessageDigestCredentialPasswordEncoder for encoding your passwords, there
>>> is
>>> no way to decode them anymore as MessageDigest encoding is a one-way only
>>> encoding algorithm.
>>>
>>>
> So if you are using the "default" password credential encoder out of the
> box, then yes, your passwords cannot be recovered.
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