[Gambas-user] What is equivalent of -nosalt in gambas gb.openssl

Tobias Boege taboege at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 22:36:03 CEST 2020


On Wed, 08 Apr 2020, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> I'm quite sure I misunderstand something here,
>

Yes, it is used in a key derivation function here, not to hash a password
for persistent storage.

> but MD5 is not
> cryptographically secure and should never be used in hashing passwords.
> 

Nevertheless, even using MD5 there is deprecated but retained as a default
for backwards compatibility -- unless I'm completely misremembering.

Regards,
Tobias

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