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I didn't spot that. Thank you very much for the prompt and helpful reply
Philip.
Phil
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:14:43 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel wrote
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Phil Jordan wrote:
>
> > I am no expert in this area. Can someone (Philip?) enlighten me on what's
> > actually required by Exim (for MD5 passwords) please? 32 characters
straight
> > hex? 24 characters (64-bit encoded)? Can it in fact cope with either?
>
> It's all documented. A quick grep of spec.txt for "md5" found this
> extract from section 11.6 in about 10 seconds:
>
> . "{md5}" computes the MD5 digest of the first string, and expresses
> this as printable characters to compare with the remainder
> of the second string. If the length of the comparison
> string is 24, Exim assumes that it is base64 encoded (as
> in the above example). If the length is 32, Exim assumes that
> it is a hexadecimal encoding of the MD5 digest. If the length
> not 24 or 32, the comparison fails.
>
> So the answer to your final question is "yes".
>
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