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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:18:09 +0000
From: John Haxby <john.haxby@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Source of bad password hashing practices? MySQL
manual...
On 09/10/13 00:57, Rich Felker wrote:
> It's come to my attention recently that the MySQL reference manual is
> recommending very poor password hashing practices as part of its
> security guidelines:
>
> "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)
>
> With MySQL being one of the major traditional "LAMP stack" components,
> I wonder if this is the source from which many web developers are
> getting their ideas on how to do password hashing. What is the proper
> procedure for publicizing documentation bugs like this which are
> leading to poor security practice, and for getting them fixed?
I passed on the comments from this message and its replies and they
eventually made their way to the MySQL documentation team and I got this
reply about a week ago:
>
> Just to let you know that the MySQL documentation team have committed the change based your suggestion and it should show up soon in the MySQL Reference Manual.
jch
(Other than having the same employer I don't have anything to do with
MySQL so I haven't seen the changes.)
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