On 21-6-2018 14:07, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
I've forwarded this FYI to devel & admin.


    [ http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5788?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=33942#action_33942 ]


Status of Srp256 plugin in FB3 & FB4.

In master branch Srp256 (with enhanced security) becomes single default authentication plugin. That means that with default configuration clients earlier than FB 3.0.4 will be not able to attach to FB4. This should not be severe problem - hopefully most of clients will be upgraded when FB4 is released.

In B3_0_Release default plugin is old Srp - I've decided not to break compatibility with existing clients in point release. Hope that fits requirements of most users. People who need enhanced security should upgrade all clients to at least 3.0.4 and set
AuthServer=Srp256
in firebird.conf.

In all cases hashes stored in security database are fully compatible between Srp & Srp256, i.e. security.db does not require any upgrade.

I have added support for this in Jaybird 3.0.5 and Jaybird 4.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel

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