Ok thanks, JIRA logged here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNCOPE-51

Colm.

2012/3/28 Francesco Chicchiriccò <[email protected]>:
> On 28/03/2012 17:25, Colm O hEigeartaigh wrote:
>>
>> Is there any reason why MD5 is used (or even supported) as the
>> password cipher algorithm? MD5 is deprecated and is not even allowed
>> by many security products.
>
>
> Hi Colm,
> not any particular reason: default cipher algorithm (key
> 'password.cipher.algorithm') is part of configuration and can be customized
> at every deployment.
>
> Actually, MD5 is part of test configuration (no problems here, I guess) [1]
> and production configuration [2], and this can be harmful. We should change
> this ASAP to one of other algorithms supported [3].
>
> I don't see any particular reason to keep MD5, anyway: anyone else's
> thought?
>
> Regards.
>
> [1]
> https://svn.us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/trunk/core/src/test/resources/content.xml
> [2]
> https://svn.us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/trunk/core/src/main/resources/content.xml
> [3]
> https://svn.us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/trunk/client/src/main/java/org/syncope/types/CipherAlgorithm.java
>
> --
> Francesco Chicchiriccò
>
> Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member
> http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
>



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Colm O hEigeartaigh

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  • MD5 Colm O hEigeartaigh
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