Some existing user passwords may need to be reset or converted
after this change. See the 1.4-beta release notes for more details.
Thanks bhuztez for the report and initial patch, claudep for the test.
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sha_constructor was incorrectly used instead of sha_hmac (which only made a
difference under 2.4).
Thanks to Steffan Kaminski for report and patch.
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All adhoc MAC applications have been updated to use HMAC, using SHA1 to
generate unique keys for each application based on the SECRET_KEY, which is
common practice for this situation. In all cases, backwards compatibility
with existing hashes has been maintained, aiming to phase this out as per
the normal deprecation process. In this way, under most normal
circumstances the old hashes will have expired (e.g. by session expiration
etc.) before they become invalid.
In the case of the messages framework and the cookie backend, which was
already using HMAC, there is the possibility of a backwards incompatibility
if the SECRET_KEY is shorter than the default 50 bytes, but the low
likelihood and low impact meant compatibility code was not worth it.
All known instances where tokens/hashes were compared using simple string
equality, which could potentially open timing based attacks, have also been
fixed using a constant-time comparison function.
There are no known practical attacks against the existing implementations,
so these security improvements will not be backported.
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Paul McMillan
Adrian Holovaty
Luke Plant