Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd authentication

2006-06-02 Thread Mark H. Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SSL. Once the conversation is encrypted to your satisfaction, you can use plaintext passwords and avoid whatever it is you don't like about the hashing methods. - -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd authentication

2006-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Apache MD5 hashes are refolded in such a way that they are expected but not proven to be less breakable than a straight MD5 hash, and most certainly expected to be less reducable than direct MD5 collision prediction. However, a straight (not refolded) flavor of SHA1 is also available and you woul

[EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd authentication

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew Hersant
A question regarding httpd authentication.  Currently I am using the default base64 method, which I believe is insecure.  Also only the first 8 characters of our passwords are actually encrypted.  We have several scripts which verify passwords from the htpassword file.  Mostly using the perl pa