[Opensim-dev] open sim UUID and Passwordhash

Frisby, Adam adam at deepthink.com.au
Fri Oct 16 05:08:11 UTC 2009


+1 to Melanie, that code is *not* secure. It is salted with a ":" but that's a fixed known salt.

This is what I suggest:

$passwordSalt = md5(time() . utime() . mt_rand(0,mt_getrandmax())); // or any other good random source
$passwordHash = md5(md5($password) . ':' . $passwordSalt);

$passwordSalt should be unique among your database (very likely with the above code); if there are duplicates, then it allows dictionary attacks to be done, the more duplicates, the more effective it is.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Melanie
> Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 4:14 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] open sim UUID and Passwordhash
> 
> Please don't use that code. It creates unsalted hashes, which are
> not secure.
> The "" should be a ranndom salt, stored in the passwordSalt field in
> the DB. If that is blank, you're running a very insecure system
> 
> 
> Melanie
> 
> 
> Rich White wrote:
> > here is the PHP code - $password_hash = md5(md5($password) . ":"
> ."");
> >
> > an md5 hash of an md5 hash
> >
> > =====
> >
> > 2009/10/15 Márcio Cardoso <marciomaiden at gmail.com>:
> >> Good night,
> >>
> >> will be possible that someone could help me with 2 problems I have?
> I'm
> >> trying to create a stored procedure in mysql to add users, but do
> not know
> >> how UUID  is generated. anyone have any idea how this happens?
> Another
> >> problem is how is the encoding of the password.
> >>
> >> The ideal was to have access to the code that  opensim uses to add
> avatars.
> >> but I got tired of looking and nothing. I thank you for your help.
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Márcio Cardoso
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