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Isaac Z. Schlueter commented on COUCHDB-2066:
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> Upconverting from the old scheme to the new one is a novel (and therefore
> almost certainly broken) security algorithm, very much -1 on that.
Why? All it's doing is taking some piece of information that you want to
remain secret (the password_sha field) and encrypting it with PBKDF2.
That's not particularly novel.
> Don't allow stupid storage of passwords
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> Key: COUCHDB-2066
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2066
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Reporter: Isaac Z. Schlueter
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> If a password_sha/salt combination is PUT into the _users db, wrap that up in
> PBKDF2.
> Discussion:
> https://twitter.com/janl/status/434818855626502144
> https://twitter.com/izs/status/434835388213899264
> https://twitter.com/janl/status/434835614790586368
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