[db-wg] MD5 Hashes in the RIPE Database

+1

Dave

On 27 Apr 2012, at 15:47, "Sascha Lenz" <slz at baycix.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> It was clear from the discussions at RIPE 64 that we need to change the
>> initial implementation of hiding the hashes for MD5 passwords in MNTNER
>> objects. A suggestion was made to keep the "auth:" attributes in place.
>> If the authentication token is an MD5 password we will remove the hash
>> value. All PGP and X.509 values will remain unchanged.
>> 
>> We have already worked on this and a sample MNTNER object would look
>> like the object below. We can deploy this change within the next two weeks.
>> 
> 
> i would very much like to see this implemented :-)
> 
> Although i made myself comfortable with the current "new" way of doing updates
> by mail, it's annoying and certainly safes time to be able to do that again 
> in one step like we used to.
> 
> Thanks for this!
> 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards
> 
> Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE]
> Senior System- & Network Architect
> 
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