[Dovecot] PLAIN-MD5 passwords?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 19:59 +0100, Adam Pordzik wrote:
> 
> Peter Clark schrieb:
> >     After I found out that {CRYPT} doesn't support passwords longer than 8 
> > characters, I decided to switch over to MD5 for user passwords in my LDAP 
> > database. However, while I have no problem with Postfix + SASL, Dovecot fails 
> > to authenticate.
> 
> I think you just found out, that 3DES (?) only supports password with
> not more that 8 characters.

...although that limitation is not inherent.  In fact, 3des is normally
an encryption algorithm, but encryption algorithms can easily be adapted
for use as hashing algorithms.

Same for des.

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