I know it sounds too obvious..
database field length?
regards
b
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Beijnoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:39 AM
Subject: Problem with trimmed SHA stored passwords in database
> Hello. I'm using James connected to a SQL Server, storing the users in a
> table. I'm having a trimming problem with the password hash generated by
> James. After adding a user with telnet with the password "testing", the
key
> below is stored in the db:
>
> 3HJK8Y+91OWRifX+dopfgxFS
>
> However, when I generate the password directly from code, I get a slightly
> longer hash:
>
> 3HJK8Y+91OWRifX+dopfgxFScFA=
>
> As you can see, the last few characters generated from my own code is
> cropped in the password generated by James. This means that I'm having a
bit
> of a problem adding users with anything else then James and telnet. Any
idea
> why this occurrs and how to solve it?
>
> Regards Erik Beijnoff
>
> Password generating code below:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> String hashThis= "testing";
>
> try {
>
> byte[] bytes= hashThis.getBytes("UTF-8");
>
> java.security.MessageDigest messageDigest=
> java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
>
> messageDigest.update(bytes);
>
>
> byte[] raw= messageDigest.digest();
>
>
> String hash = (new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder()).encode(raw);
>
>
> System.out.println("Result:" + hash);
>
> } catch (java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException ne) {
>
> //
>
> } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException ue) {
>
> //
>
> }
>
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>
>
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