Lester Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Crypto Service went into Fulcrum. I can make a quick backport to the
Turbine (the issues then were all cleared up) if someone wants to
update the docs.
Regards
Henning
>I am looking to be able to salt passwords, and checked to see if Turbine
>supports this already. My search led me to a patch proposal on the dev list
>(http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>pache.org&msgId=260787) that seemed to do exactly what I needed (that is,
>add a "salt" argument to SecurityService.encryptPassword).
>Looking at the CVS archive, I see that this Cryptoservice proposal was made
>"part of Fulcrum" in July 02.
>Looking at the Fulcrum JavaDocs, however, it appears that the parts of the
>proposal I liked (support of salt in the security interface) seem to have
>been abandoned within org.apache.fulcrum.crypto. This service seems to be
>responsible only for generic encryption. Fulcrum also offers a
>SecurityService interface and a BaseSecurityService but these seem to be
>nearly identical to the ones in Turbine 2.2, rather than using an
>encryptPassword method with a salt argument (or even the crypto service).
>It looks a bit like the original patch proposal was more interested in using
>crypt(0) than in salting passwords, so I get the feeling I'm projecting my
>desires onto it. Am I correct in assuming that the final version of the
>CryptoService differed in purpose from the original proposal?
>I also can't seem to find anything that actually uses
>org.apache.fulcrum.crypto in Turbine 2.2. Did Turbine 2.2 ever make use of
>it? I guess I'm a little unclear as to what following the howto for
>configuration actually does for you. I guess this just lets you use the
>service, but the configuration doesn't actually make Turbine use it by
>default. Is that right?
>Thanks,
>Wordman
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