Re: [Dovecot] Weird Authentication behaviour

2014-03-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.03.2014 11:27, schrieb Joseph Tam: > > Reindl Harald writes: > >> frankly 8 chars is laughable, i recently wrote a PHP library to >> generate secure random passwords and for 10 passwords get >> 13 collisions is way to much given that that means you have >> a collision every 8000 trie

Re: [Dovecot] Weird Authentication behaviour

2014-03-27 Thread Joseph Tam
Reindl Harald writes: frankly 8 chars is laughable, i recently wrote a PHP library to generate secure random passwords and for 10 passwords get 13 collisions is way to much given that that means you have a collision every 8000 tries which means not you need 8000 in a real world attack (O

Re: [Dovecot] Weird Authentication behaviour

2014-03-24 Thread Jiri Bourek
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2014 12:47, schrieb Gedalya: On 03/24/2014 07:34 AM, Jürgen Ladstätter wrote: we use dovecot 2.0.9 and authentication against a mysql database. Everything works fine, but we found some weird behavior – when the password is e.g. “testpass” you also authenticate suc

Re: [Dovecot] Weird Authentication behaviour

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 12:47, schrieb Gedalya: > On 03/24/2014 07:34 AM, Jürgen Ladstätter wrote: >> we use dovecot 2.0.9 and authentication against a mysql database. Everything >> works fine, but we found some weird behavior – when the password is e.g. >> “testpass” you also authenticate successfully with

Re: [Dovecot] Weird Authentication behaviour

2014-03-24 Thread Gedalya
On 03/24/2014 07:34 AM, Jürgen Ladstätter wrote: Hi guys, we use dovecot 2.0.9 and authentication against a mysql database. Everything works fine, but we found some weird behavior – when the password is e.g. “testpass” you also authenticate successfully with “testpass123” or “testpassNOT”.

[Dovecot] Weird Authentication behaviour

2014-03-24 Thread Jürgen Ladstätter
Hi guys, we use dovecot 2.0.9 and authentication against a mysql database. Everything works fine, but we found some weird behavior – when the password is e.g. “testpass” you also authenticate successfully with “testpass123” or “testpassNOT”. Whatever comes after the correct password doesn’t mat