[impdev] http://redmine.kokuaviewer.org/issues/1126 encrypting passwords.

David Seikel onefang at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 09:26:26 PST 2012


On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:52:09 +1000 David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Both sorts of stored passwords are 32 bit hexadecimal strings.  So we
> can't tell which sort of password it is and fix it on the fly.

Actually, the encrypted password is 32 bytes of binary, where the
hashed one we store is 32 hex digits.  I think that's the bug that
comment was referring to.  Can't store raw binary in XML files in the
same way we store a string of hex digits.

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