Am Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2002 09:03 schrieben Sie: > Your message cannot be posted because it appears to be either > spam or simply off topic to our filter. To bypass the filter > you must include one of the following words in your message: > > sql,query > > If you just reply to this message, and include the entire text > of it in the reply, your reply will go through. However, you > should first review the text of the message to make sure it > has something to do with MySQL. Just typing the word MySQL > once will be sufficient, for example. > > You have written the following: > > Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2002 20:06 schrieb Tobias Bengtsson: > > how strong is > > the PASSWORD()-funtion? is it just some crypt(3)-variant or > > good shit? > > password() seems to be using some kind of one-way hashing=20 > function, probably md5 or a related function. It does take=20 > passwords of arbitrary length, and produces a password-entry > of=20 a fixed length. Also, identical passwords used by > different=20 users have identical encrpytions, so the user > name or some other=20 secret or salt is not part of the hashed > password (this is a=20 potential weakness!). > > Kristian
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