Difference between revisions of "Nssha1"

Revision as of 22:25, 2 December 2005

The nssha1 module provides the ns_sha1 function.

Installation

Debian users can install this module for aolserver4 with:

apt-get install aolserver4-nssha1

Configuration

ns_section "ns/server/${servername}/modules" ns_param nssha1 nssha1.so

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-The nssha1 module provides the ns_sha1 function, which returns a 40-character, hex-encoded string containing the SHA1 hash of the first argument.
+The nssha1 module provides the [[ns_sha1]] function.
-Example 1:
-<pre>
-set sRawPassword "mypassword"
-set sPassword [ns_sha1 $sRawPassword]
-ns_adp_puts $sPassword
-# 04003622EB9D0F788CE7568C7EED23809534365A
-</pre>
-Usually this function is used with a salt, as without a salt it is succeptible to dictionary-based attacks.
-Example 2:
-<pre>
-set sSalt "salty"
-set sRawPassword "mypassword"
-set sPassword [ns_sha1 ${sRawPassword}${sSalt}]
-# B48FB74597C11FC609DBE912992085EB07847FB6
-</pre>
 '''Installation'''