On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:30, Solar Designer <so...@openwall.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:31:02AM +0200, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>> Added to http://php.net/security/crypt, and added a link from the
>> release announcement and changelog.
>> (should show up in an hour or two).
>
> Thanks.  I suggest the following three changes:
>
> 1. Change the title from "crypt() security fix details" to
> CRYPT_BLOWFISH security fix details" to avoid confusion with the
> CRYPT_MD5 problem inadvertently introduced in 5.3.7.

done


> 2. Remove this paragraph:
>
> BTW, PHP 5.3.7+ has been updated to crypt_blowfish 1.2, not the
> intermediate 1.1 release referenced in the previous comment. The
> differences between 1.1 and 1.2 include introduction of the
> countermeasure for $2a$ mentioned above and the $2y$ prefix.
>
> which made sense in the bug comments (after a preceding comment), but is
> unneeded here.

done



>
> 3. Maybe the URL should be .../crypt_blowfish rather than .../crypt,
> since there will definitely be more fixes/changes to PHP's crypt(), some
> of which might need their own release notes.  It might be too late to
> make this change, though.

done.
Added a fallback from /security/crypt to /security/crypt_blowfish for
the time being.

-Hannes

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