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ASF subversion and git services commented on KNOX-3101:
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Commit 956abf9ccd7ba34ba3b1c0ecd0625717b5be0a2b in knox's branch 
refs/heads/master from Larry McCay
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=knox.git;h=956abf9cc ]

KNOX-3101 - hash key for RemoteAuthProvider cache (#996)



> Change RemoteAuthProvider to use a hash of the Key used for Caching
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KNOX-3101
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-3101
>             Project: Apache Knox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Server
>            Reporter: Larry McCay
>            Assignee: Larry McCay
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.2.0
>
>          Time Spent: 20m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> The initial implementation of RemoteAuthProvider caches authenticated 
> Subjects locally based on the header that contained the credentials. While 
> the cache is designed to provide only a few mins of caching, it is less than 
> ideal to use the credentials as keys. This needs to be strengthened to use a 
> hash as to not inadvertently risk leaking the credentials.
> This will require some overhead involved in the hashing so we may need to 
> find something else but we shouldn't use the credentials themselves. We would 
> normally have to do a hash for implementing authentication for things like 
> RDMS or LDAP based passwords, etc.



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