During the bind process is there anyway to tell 389 directory server to
hash a plaintext password n (multiple) times before trying to compare to
what is stored?
I am trying to implement something similar to what's described in this
article:
http://www.stormpath.com/blog/strong-password-hashing-apache-shiro
Our plan was to to use SSHA256 to hash the passwords around 200,000 times
before storing. This would at least slow down any cracking attempts should
someone get access to our directory.
I've read through the documentation on the Red Hat Directory Server site,
including the "Plug-in Guide". Under "5.8 Checking Passwords" it
refers to
calling function "slapi_pw_find_sv()" - looking at the doc for this
function it does not look like hashing multiple times is supported.
Is there some means of doing this that is not obvious to me?
I can certainly do it by re-writing the security plugins for the various
servers (Tomcat, PHP Wordpress, etc) such that they hash the plaintext
password n minus 1 times before issuing the bind - but was hoping not to do
that.
I'm relatively new to 389 directory server, but so far quite happy to have
moved to it from another directory server.
Thank you - Richard
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