Thursday, January 11, 2024

[389-users] Re: Password storage scheme - choices

> On 12 Jan 2024, at 10:19, John Thurston <john.thurston@alaska.gov> wrote:
>
> We've moving from DS 1.4 --> DS 2.1
> With DS 1.4, we have our password hashing set to PBKDF2_SHA256. Our DS 2.1 defaults to PBKDF2-SHA512.
> During the cutover phase, I want to set the 2.1 instances back to SHA256. We'd then advance the storage scheme to SHA512 when we were ready to sever our links to the past.
> Through the cockpit-interface, I may choose among:
> • PBKDF2-SHA1
> • PBKDF2-SHA256
> • PBKDF2-SHA512
> • PBKDF2_SHA256
> Are the two SHA256 choices the same? Is there some significance I'm missing in the "_" and the "-" characters?
>

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2022-11-25-why-are-pbkdf2-sha256-and-pbkdf2-sha256-different-in-389-ds/


tl;dr Use PBKDF2-SHA256. (hyphen, not underscore).



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Sincerely,

William Brown

Senior Software Engineer,
Identity and Access Management
SUSE Labs, Australia
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