Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Friday, February 24, 2017 9:06 PM +0100 Michael Ströder 
> <mich...@stroeder.com> wrote:
> 
>> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>> I think it would be wise to update OpenLDAP to a different default for
>>> userPassword.
>>
>> Yes!
>>
>>> We currently have the Contrib SHA2 module,
>>
>> SHA-2 hashes with one round are also way too fast to be a good password
>> hash algorithm.
>>
>>> It may be time to move the SHA2 module into core,
>>
>> Yes, but there should be something stronger.
> 
> Did you just skip entirely past the point where I said:
> 
> "but there has been some discussion of the limitations of the current SHA2 
> module in
> the past that would likely need addressing"

Sorry, it seems I misread your sentence: I assumed you're talking about concrete
deficiencies of the implementation in ./contrib/slapd-modules/passwd/sha2.

I was referring to strength of password hashing scheme.

> And yes, perhaps PBKDF2 should be in core as well. ;)

Would be nice.

Ciao, Michael.


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