digest-md5 password store

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Wed Dec 5 16:47:01 EST 2007


Guillermo Gómez wrote:
> Thanks Dan, im reading and trying to digest all the material available.
> 
> What the customer wants is:
> 
> 1.- md5-digest between imap client/server (squirrelmail/cyrus-imapd)
> 2.- md5 encrypted passwords stored in mysql db (cyrus-imap-??)
> 
> Is this combination possible?

I've seen mention of a way to store md5 hashes for use with 
DIGEST-MD5, but I believe it has to be the md5 of 
'user:realm:password'. See RFC 2831, section 3.9.


- Dan


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