Bug#469271: apache2-utils: htpasswd salt generation weakness

2008-03-08 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Martin, On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > htpasswd does weak password salt generation. the problem is not very severe. Unless an attacker wants to crack a significant number of passwords that were created in the same second (and therefore got the same salt), this weakness

Bug#469271: apache2-utils: htpasswd salt generation weakness

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Package: apache2-utils Version: 2.2.3-4+etch4 Severity: normal According to https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31440 and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/103666/ (sorry german only, but does contain example how to reproduce the problem) htpasswd does weak password salt g