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List:       apr-dev
Subject:    Re: apr_password_validate on win32 silently mishandles crypted  hashes
From:       Bill Stoddard <bill () wstoddard ! com>
Date:       2004-05-28 2:52:39
Message-ID: 40B6A977.1000905 () wstoddard ! com
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William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

> At 09:05 PM 5/26/2004, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've posted the following wording:
>>
>>/**
>>* Validate hashes created by APR-supported algorithms: md5 and base64.
>>* hashes created by crypt are supported only on platforms that provide
>>* crypt(3), so don't rely on that function unless you know that your
>>* application will be run only on platforms that support it.
>>* @param passwd The password to validate
>>* @param hash The password to validate against
>>*/
>>
>>Is that good enough?
> 
> 
> _Please_ use @bug to document any platform specific, unpredictable,
> or wildly incorrect behavior.  The days of /* XXX: */ should be long gone
> now that doxygen will tabulate all our problems for us :)

Cool!

Bill
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