On 9 January 2015 at 16:45, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Changing this fallback behavior to the correct error should happen.
> However, this will likely break a number of live systems which are
> currently relying on the incorrect behavior (likely without knowing
> it).

I'd call this a sec fix. Absolutely preferable to have an error than a
silent fallback to broken crypto.

>
> Then in a future version (7.1, 8, whatever) remove the fallback and
> keep the error along with returning a failure indication (*0).
>

Is 7 really too soon? I know we err on the side of compatibility, but
in my opinion the fallback should be removed completely (any salt
starting with a $ must not degrade to any other method).

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