[Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Tue Jan 3 22:59:39 EET 2012


On 2012-01-03 3:40 PM, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Was just perusing this article about how trivial it is to decrypt
> passwords that are stored using most (standard) encryption methods (like
> MD5), and was wondering - is it possible to use bcrypt with
> dovecot+postfix+mysql (or posgres)?

Ooop... forgot the link:

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

But after perusing the wiki:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes

it appears not?

Timo - any chance for adding support for it? Or is that web page incorrect?

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Best regards,

Charles



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