Hi,
we don't provide security, we implement mechanisms enforcing a better
security. Whatever system you use, the weakest part of the security chain
will be the one which will be cracked first. Usually, human being is the
weakest element ... Can we fix it ? ;)
Now, to be very clear : you can use any kind of salted and encrypted
password, just _know_ that the password is sent in *clear text* through a
bind request, unless you use LDAPS protocol or SASL.
Emmanuel
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Security is a myth :) even with one way algorythm. This is a bit more
secure but with time hack is always possible. What you can do is delaying
hacker success. What you can do is monitoring what hackers are doing to
detect the attack.
With ApacheDS you can replace authentication provider then you can monitor
password detection here. Is it possible to change search engine?
Stevens
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> hopefully, there is no way to get the password from its encrypted form
> : this would be a major security breach !
>
Well actually there is, but you need to do some guesswork ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/
http://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/
Don't know if the password hash in ApacheDS is salted, though.
The password hash should not be possible to extract or query by other
means
than backup, not through a query.
If you are allowed to do a search like
$ ldapsearch -b o=some.root -s sub 'userPassword="{md5}
b4b5835f03bd6748e0cc25790d6f3498"' dn
it would render you all objects with the attribute userPassword equal to
"the secret password", which may not be such a good idea.
iPlanet DS 4.x allowed searches on ueserPassword attribute with
directory manager privs
I found out. Have not tested if this works with ApacheDS.
/h
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