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2004 Jul 23
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weakness in hash salt generation
Dovecot has routines for password hashing; two of these, crypt_generate
and md5_generate, both use sizeof(salt_chars) when reducing a random
string to salt.
I became suspicious when I noted that all salts generated are composed
only of "./01".
Unfortunately salt_char is declared static const char * rather than
static const char [], and so sizeof(salt_chars) is the size of a pointer.
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