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John_Ogle_45372
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Sep 04, 2013

Basci HTTP Auth with with the salted SHA512 algorithm rather than MD5???

I read this article on the new salted SHA512 algorithm for hashing passwords. I assume this is local but what about using it in a HTTP Basic Auth irule instead of using MD5. Is this possbile? If so,...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 04, 2013

I believe Jeff is specifically talking about Linux local users, but generally speaking:

 

  1. Basic auth uses base64 - not a hashing algorithm - and is browser-dependent.

     

  2. SHA512 is an option should you need to hash something:

     

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.sha512.ashx