[Dovecot] weakness in hash salt generation

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 23 21:06:05 EEST 2004


On 23.7.2004, at 20:11, Joshua Goodall wrote:

> Dovecot has routines for password hashing; two of these, crypt_generate
> and md5_generate, both use sizeof(salt_chars) when reducing a random
> string to salt.

So it seems. But how did you notice it? I don't think those functions 
are ever called by Dovecot itself? They're there just in case some day 
they would be useful..
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