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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:27:51 +0200
From: Raphael Geissert <geissert@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Source of bad password hashing practices? MySQL manual...
On 9 October 2013 01:57, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
> "Do not store cleartext passwords in your database. If your computer
> becomes compromised, the intruder can take the full list of
> passwords and use them. Instead, use SHA2(), SHA1(), MD5(), or some
> other one-way hashing function and store the hash value."
>
> (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/security-guidelines.html)
They probably don't mention the use of ENCRYPT (think of it as an
alias to crypt(3)) because it is not portable to Windows-based
systems, but I find the following bit quite amusing:
http://sources.debian.net/src/mysql-5.5/5.5.33+dfsg-1/sql/item_strfunc.cc?hl=1877#L1889
(yeah, that's in their implementation of ENCRYPT())
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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