[Dovecot] HMAC-MD5 / HMAC-MD5-context

[Joshua Goodall]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:16:15PM +0200, V?clav Haisman wrote:
> Andrey Panin wrote:
> > On 234, 08 22, 2006 at 11:30:07AM +0200, Chris Laif wrote:
> >> Maybe it would be better to use {HMAC-MD5-CONTEXT} or {HMAC-MD5-CTX} ?
> > 
> > This change will break existing dovecot installations without any real gain.
> > 
> Correctness is IMO much more important than backward compatibility with
> buggy/broken behaviour.

The string is correct.  Dovecot's format in this regard is derived
from (but not identical with) the LDAP format, RFC 3112, and the string
enclosed in {} denotes the name of the password scheme to use with this
data, and NOT the type of the data that follows.

JG


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