Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-08 Thread Guenter Knauf
Am 08.03.2011 07:06, schrieb William A. Rowe Jr.: But what does this have to do with httpd? At best, you are suggesting a docs improvement. Otherwise this is on the language you are using and not an ASF issue... but the desired behavior has been part of Crypt::PasswdMD5 for a dozen years,

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-08 Thread André Malo
From the peanut gallery: Oh dear. The password encryption is called MD5 based crypt (as opposed to the DES based crypt used in the early days by various systems). MD5 based crypt is now standard with modern systems. There's nothing Apache-special about the algorithm. We just use a different

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-08 Thread Noel Butler
This is forwarded to the OP (CC'd) , thanks for clearing up a few things for me as well, and perhaps the docs could be amended to reflect it is not base md5, remember, most admins out there are not encryption experts. Incidentally, when will httpd accept sha2? Planned in 2.2.x? or only 2.3/4.x ?

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-08 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/8/2011 5:47 PM, Noel Butler wrote: Incidentally, when will httpd accept sha2? Planned in 2.2.x? or only 2.3/4.x ? We won't implement the hash itself... so it would likely originate from tighter integration with openssl (which would give us DES_crypt for legacy win32 compatibility).

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-07 Thread Noel Butler
by an Apache md5 wanting. Noel - Original Message - From: Edward avanti edward.ava...@gmail.com To: my...@lists.mysql.com Sent: Monday, 7 March, 2011 5:54:02 AM Subject: Re: mysql apache md5 everything to do with mysql I try make it clearer, sorry for not so in first post

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/7/2011 5:31 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 13:51 +0100, Johan De Meersman wrote: Umm... I'm no crypto guru, but I've never heard of MD5 having variants, let alone a salt. MD5 is MD5 is MD5. APR, incidentally, is the Apache Runtime, afaik - part of the build kit for apache

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-07 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:38 -0600, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 3/7/2011 5:31 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 13:51 +0100, Johan De Meersman wrote: Umm... I'm no crypto guru, but I've never heard of MD5 having variants, let alone a salt. MD5 is MD5 is MD5. APR, incidentally,

Re: mysql apache md5

2011-03-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 3/7/2011 8:31 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:38 -0600, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 3/7/2011 5:31 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 13:51 +0100, Johan De Meersman wrote: Umm... I'm no crypto guru, but I've never heard of MD5 having variants, let alone a