I thought the things in Fulcrum had been "backported" into Turbine?
What did that actually mean?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quinton McCombs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: Turbine Users List
> Subject: RE: Current state of CryptoService?
> 
> 
> Turbine 2.2 makes no use of Fulcrum.  Turbine 2.3 does not use Fulcrum
> either.  
> 
> I know nothing about the crypto service or the proposals that went
> around about that topic.  That might be a good question for the
> turbine-dev list.
> 
> Given that it does not appear that the current plans for Turbine will
> the include use of Fulcrum in the near future, I would 
> suggest that you
> refactor the code from Fulcrum into Turbine 2.3.  This should be a
> fairly painless process...  Then implement your needs for the salting.
> 
> If you need help with this effort, the people on the dev list 
> should be
> willing to help you out.  
> 
> Once you are done, you can submit the crypto service for 
> inclusion into
> Turbine 2.3.  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lester Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:37 AM
> > To: Turbine User Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Current state of CryptoService?
> > 
> > 
> > I am looking to be able to salt passwords, and checked to see 
> > if Turbine supports this already. My search led me to a patch 
> > proposal on the dev list 
> > (http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=turbine
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > pache.org&msgId=260787) that seemed to do exactly what I 
> > needed (that is, add a "salt" argument to 
> > SecurityService.encryptPassword).
> > 
> > Looking at the CVS archive, I see that this Cryptoservice 
> > proposal was made "part of Fulcrum" in July 02.
> > 
> > Looking at the Fulcrum JavaDocs, however, it appears that the 
> > parts of the proposal I liked (support of salt in the 
> > security interface) seem to have been abandoned within 
> > org.apache.fulcrum.crypto. This service seems to be 
> > responsible only for generic encryption. Fulcrum also offers 
> > a SecurityService interface and a BaseSecurityService but 
> > these seem to be nearly identical to the ones in Turbine 2.2, 
> > rather than using an encryptPassword method with a salt 
> > argument (or even the crypto service).
> > 
> > It looks a bit like the original patch proposal was more 
> > interested in using
> > crypt(0) than in salting passwords, so I get the feeling I'm 
> > projecting my desires onto it. Am I correct in assuming that 
> > the final version of the CryptoService differed in purpose 
> > from the original proposal?
> > 
> > I also can't seem to find anything that actually uses 
> > org.apache.fulcrum.crypto in Turbine 2.2. Did Turbine 2.2 
> > ever make use of it? I guess I'm a little unclear as to what 
> > following the howto for configuration actually does for you. 
> > I guess this just lets you use the service, but the 
> > configuration doesn't actually make Turbine use it by 
> > default. Is that right?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Wordman
> > 
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