[Checkins] SVN: zope.password/trunk/README.txt Add the 2 new legacy managers to the readme.

Martijn Pieters mj at zopatista.com
Sun Feb 20 09:38:07 EST 2011


Log message for revision 120465:
  Add the 2 new legacy managers to the readme.

Changed:
  U   zope.password/trunk/README.txt

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Modified: zope.password/trunk/README.txt
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--- zope.password/trunk/README.txt	2011-02-20 14:31:50 UTC (rev 120464)
+++ zope.password/trunk/README.txt	2011-02-20 14:38:07 UTC (rev 120465)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 This package provides a password manager mechanism. Password manager
 is an utility object that can encode and check encoded
 passwords. Beyond the generic interface, this package also provides
-four implementations:
+six implementations:
 
 * PlainTextPasswordManager - the most simple and the less secure
   one. It does not do any password encoding and simply checks password
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@
   when encoding it. This password manager is compatible with passwords
   used in LDAP databases.
 
+* CryptPasswordManager - A manager implementing the crypt(3) hashing scheme.
+  Only available if the python crypt module is installed. This is a legacy
+  manager, only present to ensure that zope.password can be used for all
+  schemes defined in RFC 2307 (LDAP).
+
+* MySQLPasswordManager - A manager implementing the digest scheme as
+  implemented in the MySQL PASSWORD function in MySQL versions before 4.1. 
+  Note that this method results in a very weak 16-byte hash.
+
+
 It is strongly recommended to use SSHAPasswordManager, as it's the
 most secure.
 



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