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Authen-Passphrase
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Pros: A complete swiss-army knife for managing password strings. I maintain a large project which requires the ability to authenticate all sorts of passwords, DES crypt, MD5, Blowfish, LDAP encodings, this module does it all.
Cons: A twisty maze of odd dependencies, all alike.
Ivan Kohler - 2009-03-28T04:38:32 (permalink)
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Authen-Passphrase
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This is a very clean and consistent way of managing password strings and making them into password objects.
It's nice for testing (using cleartext passwords), upgrading (migrating from say crypt to a stronger hash), and other scenarios where the polymorphism of the api is very valuable (everything can be used the as/from stringification methods, and can be tested for password equivalence the same way, even though the representations are different).
The only problem I ran into is that it doesn't [yet] support $apr1$ style passwords (i dunno if this is the hash function or just the formatting that is missing), but aside from that it works great.
יובל קוג'מן - 2008-09-24T10:06:29 (permalink)
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