[db-wg] MD5 Hashes in the RIPE Database

Dear Colleagues,

This revised implementation has now been deployed. If you have any
specific issues with it, please contact our Customer Services with
details on <ripe-dbm at ripe.net>, or for more general comments you can
reply back to this mailing list.

Regards,
Denis Walker
Business Analyst
RIPE NCC Database Group

On 16/05/12:21 12:35 PM, Nigel Titley wrote:
> On 26/04/2012 10:25, Denis Walker wrote:
>> 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've noted 6 replies in favour of this and none against and so I'd ask
> the DB team to roll this change out as soon as conveniently possible.
> 
> Nigel
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