Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-05 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:17:06PM +0500, Umair Kayani wrote: I tired implementing the paswordhash.java file but it threw me with any error that is invalid column salt. Can you tell me where I am mistaken and secondly since I am new to use eclipse so can you help me as how can I debug the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-01 Thread João Melo
Kayani -Original Message- From: ivan.ma...@gmail.com [mailto:ivan.ma...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of helix84 Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:26 PM To: Umair Kayani Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [?? Probable Spam] Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-01 Thread helix84
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Umair Kayani ukay...@niftetrust.com wrote: Helix, Using SSL was our backup plan. DSpace keeps the hash of the password in database so I was wondering at what servlet this change occur. If request is going with clear password then it must be converting it to

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-01 Thread Umair Kayani
...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of helix84 Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 3:34 PM To: Umair Kayani Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2 On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Umair Kayani ukay...@niftetrust.com wrote: Helix, Using SSL

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-01 Thread Umair Kayani
: Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2 Hi, DSpace Eperson password hash: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/ds pace/eperson/PasswordHash.java Hashing the eperson password for storing purposes only allows one to secure

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-01 Thread helix84
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Umair Kayani ukay...@niftetrust.com wrote: Actually we surely implement SSL but we also want our password be saved in hashed form using SHA variants or some other algorithm whatever we like to use rather than using dspace default hashing algorithm. Why didn't you

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-11-01 Thread Umair Kayani
Security details of dspace 1.8.2 On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Umair Kayani ukay...@niftetrust.com wrote: Actually we surely implement SSL but we also want our password be saved in hashed form using SHA variants or some other algorithm whatever we like to use rather than using dspace

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-10-31 Thread helix84
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Umair Kayani ukay...@niftetrust.com wrote: What I want is to make my login password encrypted without deploying SSL certificate (without going on to https). What I investigated so far is that my password travels in plain text on the network which is a security

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-10-31 Thread helix84
Please note that a self-signed server certificate is perfectly fine for this purpose (end-to-end encryption without authenticating that the server is who it claims to be) and your custom solution would do exactly that. Regards, ~~helix84

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-10-31 Thread Hilton Gibson
Here is a step-by-step procedure to secure your logins via HTTPS: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Secure_Internet_Connections On 31 October 2012 14:28, helix84 heli...@centrum.sk wrote: Please note that a self-signed server certificate is perfectly fine for this purpose

[Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-10-30 Thread Umair Kayani
Can anyone share what are the application security details that dspace is following. Since this is an open source so I want to make sure that application level security is strict enough for the hackers to chip in. In case of password based authentication which hashing algorithm it is following

Re: [Dspace-tech] Application Security details of dspace 1.8.2

2012-10-30 Thread helix84
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Umair Kayani ukay...@niftetrust.com wrote: Can anyone share what are the application security details that dspace is following. Since this is an open source so I want to make sure that application level security is strict enough for the hackers to chip in. Can