Re: New xpass extension - proposal
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:33:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: New xpass extension - proposal | ||
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On 27.08.2024 at 11:42, Remi Collet wrote:
> I was asked to be able to use the same password
> algo than linux distribution for its user database
>
> Old distro use sha512 ($6$...)
> New distro use yescrypt ($y$...)
>
> So I choose to implement this using the
> features from libxcrypt as an extension
>
> This is only for Linux
>
> This is not designed to improve security
> but for compatibility reasons.
>
> Sources:
> https://github.com/remicollet/php-xpass
>
>
> If no objection, and if good feedback from
> the requester of this feature, I plan to
> add this extension to pecl
I don't see any reason not to publish this on PECL.
Christoph