SSL, EZproxy and DVN password storage

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Joerg Messer

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Jan 9, 2015, 2:02:15 PM1/9/15
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Greetings,

We're currently running DVN without using SSL.  We hope to change this soon and I was wondering if anyone knows of any issues using SSL with EZproxy authentication? Until Shib becomes an option, EZproxy is essential for us. 

On a somewhat related note, could someone tell me how DVN passwords are stored in the database (text, hash, hash+, etc)?  We've had a query from our Privacy Impact Assessment Office. 

//Joerg Messer (UBC Library)

Philip Durbin

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Jan 23, 2015, 8:56:48 AM1/23/15
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Sorry, Joerg, I don't know anything about EZproxy, but I can try to answer the question about password hashing. From the "Update password encryption to use BCrypt" ticket at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/1034 it's my understanding that as of this writing SHA is being used. Here's the commit where I added a "to do" about this: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/commit/5f31e3a . This was discussed in a code review: http://bl.ocks.org/pdurbin/raw/df60717dc0b5cfb4742c

Phil

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Joerg Messer

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Jan 29, 2015, 2:22:29 PM1/29/15
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Thanks Phil.  I'll have a closer look at the docs you reference.  Hopefully a little experimenting will lead to a working SSL + EZproxy config.

On Friday, 23 January 2015 05:56:48 UTC-8, Philip Durbin wrote:
Sorry, Joerg, I don't know anything about EZproxy, but I can try to answer the question about password hashing. From the "Update password encryption to use BCrypt" ticket at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/1034 it's my understanding that as of this writing SHA is being used. Here's the commit where I added a "to do" about this: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/commit/5f31e3a . This was discussed in a code review: http://bl.ocks.org/pdurbin/raw/df60717dc0b5cfb4742c

Phil
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Joerg Messer <joerg....@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,

We're currently running DVN without using SSL.  We hope to change this soon and I was wondering if anyone knows of any issues using SSL with EZproxy authentication? Until Shib becomes an option, EZproxy is essential for us. 

On a somewhat related note, could someone tell me how DVN passwords are stored in the database (text, hash, hash+, etc)?  We've had a query from our Privacy Impact Assessment Office. 

//Joerg Messer (UBC Library)

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