[Dovecot] Storing passwords encrypted... bcrypt?

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Thu Jan 5 03:59:12 EET 2012


On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 20:58 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:


> To prevent rainbow table attacks, salt your passwords. You can make them 
> a little bit more difficult in plenty of ways, but salt is the /solution/.



Agreed...
We use  Crypt::PasswdMD5 -
unix_md5_crypt()  for all general password storage including mail/ftp
etc, except for web, where we need to use apache_md5_crypt().




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