On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 09:37:21 GMT, Michael McMahon <micha...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > Could I get the following change reviewed please, which is to disable the MD5 > message digest algorithm by default in the HTTP Digest authentication > mechanism? The algorithm can be opted into by setting a new system property > "http.auth.digest.reEnabledAlgs" to include the value MD5. The change also > updates the Digest authentication implementation to use some of the more > secure features defined in RFC7616, such as username hashing and additional > digest algorithms like SHA256 and SHA512-256. > > - Michael src/java.base/share/classes/sun/net/www/protocol/http/DigestAuthentication.java line 71: > 69: // This will probably be expanded to include SHA-1 eventually > 70: private static final Set<String> defDisabledAlgs = > 71: Set.of("MD5"); What I'm suggesting is that the content of this set could be seeded with the value of a Security Property, defined in java.security - rather than have the default value hardcoded here. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7688