[Openstack-security] [Bug 1348339] Re: Use of weak MD5 algorithm

Nikhil Manchanda SlickNik at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 01:22:23 UTC 2014


So I looked into this a bit more, and schang is correct. 
Trove is limited by the implementation that swift supports which is currently only MD5.
If we want to support file verification based on SHA256 or something else, we will need to have this added to swift. 

** Changed in: trove
       Status: Triaged => Opinion

** Changed in: trove
       Status: Opinion => Won't Fix

** Changed in: trove
     Assignee: Simon Chang (changsimon) => (unassigned)

** Changed in: trove
    Milestone: ongoing => None

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Title:
  Use of weak MD5 algorithm

Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
  Won't Fix
Status in Openstack Database (Trove):
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The file: trove/trove/guestagent/strategies/storage/swift.py line 54
  uses a weak hashing algorithm, MD5. It would be pretty simple
  hardening upgrade to use at least hashlib.SHA256.

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