Re: [OT] question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-23 Thread Joe A
is it really that hard to reply to a question without coming off as a pompous ass? On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:23 PM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: > [...] > >> It took me less than a minute to find the JavaDoc for >> java.security.MessageDigest >> > > It's by saying

Re: [OT] question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread André Warnier
Mark Thomas wrote: [...] It took me less than a minute to find the JavaDoc for java.security.MessageDigest It's by saying things like that that you provoke this kind of question.. It takes us mere mortals ages to find anything there. :-) ---

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe, Joe A wrote: > i'm talking about the part of configuration that lets you choose specify how > the passwords are stored in the users table. I think for DIGEST auth, you don't want /any/ hashing for the password in the user's table. You want the v

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Thomas
Joe A wrote: > in the docs it says "The value for this attribute must be one of the digest > algorithms supported by the java.security.MessageDigest class (SHA, MD2, or > MD5). " > > so if i encrypt using the sha1 algorithm, do you know if i should specify > sha1 or sha-1 or sha? Is it really too

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Joe A
in the docs it says "The value for this attribute must be one of the digest algorithms supported by the java.security.MessageDigest class (SHA, MD2, or MD5). " so if i encrypt using the sha1 algorithm, do you know if i should specify sha1 or sha-1 or sha? thanks, joe On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:06

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Mark Thomas
Joe A wrote: > i'm talking about the part of configuration that lets you choose specify how > the passwords are stored in the users table. To repeat my previous answer, any digest that is supported by the JVM you are using is fine for this. Mark

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Joe A
i'm talking about the part of configuration that lets you choose specify how the passwords are stored in the users table. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Schultz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joe, > > Joe A wrote: > > i'm talking ab

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe, Joe A wrote: > i'm talking about this part of configuration: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html Sorry, I should have been more clear. Although Tomcat allows you to pick the hashing algorithm for DIGEST auth, there is no w

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-22 Thread Joe A
i'm talking about this part of configuration: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Christopher Schultz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joe, > > Joe A wrote: > > if i'm going to be using sha-1 fo

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe, Joe A wrote: > if i'm going to be using sha-1 for the encryption, do i just specify > digest=SHA, digest=SHA1, digest=SHA-1? I'm not sure you have a choice... I think it's MD5 by "default" with no other options. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-18 Thread Mark Thomas
Johnny Kewl wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Joe A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:07 PM > Subject: question about realm auth and digest attribute > > >> if i'm going to be using sha-1 for the enc

Re: question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-18 Thread Johnny Kewl
- Original Message - From: "Joe A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:07 PM Subject: question about realm auth and digest attribute if i'm going to be using sha-1 for the encryption, do i just specify digest=SHA, digest=SHA1, diges

question about realm auth and digest attribute

2008-09-18 Thread Joe A
if i'm going to be using sha-1 for the encryption, do i just specify digest=SHA, digest=SHA1, digest=SHA-1? thanks, joe