Salted SHA512

[Laurens Vets]

On 2016-09-07 22:25, Nathan Ward wrote:
> (List admin, please ignore the large message waiting for moderation)
> 
>> On 8/09/2016, at 13:16, Laurens Vets <laurens at daemon.be 
>> <mailto:laurens at daemon.be>> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry to bother the list again, but it still doesn't work. I've put 
>> '0x' in front of that string and I still get a byte error message. See 
>> debug #1 below.
>> 
>> Most likely, I'm doing something completely wrong, so here's my full 
>> password generating method:
>> 
>> root at server:~# perl ssha2passwd.pl -l 512 -saltlen 8 laurens7
>> oiaYnKzLDNazrhlH95szGQkh0eSQzBd8lFWK6lOEqbVV9S1gdhNIbUvEU0esQsgkFsIE7GYsYZl7pzN3aq3sQKibKTo9EUWk
>> root at server:~#
>> 
>> MariaDB [radius]> UPDATE radcheck SET 
>> value='0xoiaYnKzLDNazrhlH95szGQkh0eSQzBd8lFWK6lOEqbVV9S1gdhNIbUvEU0esQsgkFsIE7GYsYZl7pzN3aq3sQKibKTo9EUWk' 
>> WHERE id=5;
>> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)
>> Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 0
>> 
> 
> Put 0x in front of hex strings. If it is not a hex string, don’t put
> 0x in front of it. The output of ssha2passwd.pl is not a hex string.
> 
> Please look at the logs and see if these are things you can resolve 
> yourself:
> (1) sql: ERROR: Error parsing value: Invalid hex data
> 
> Alan was saying that the
> “a6183fa9bbd706c6731acf41e9218c9ab94867b4b337e3d6fad29027a566a57e914fc4c82a7c5fe7fb7b1945f59c8c37151deb0f7ef5cd3aab5”
> etc. string is hex, so it should have an 0x in front of it. The string
> you get out of ssha2passwd.pl should not have an 0x in front of it as
> it is not hex.
> 
> If you want, you could probably encode the output of ssha2passwd.pl as
> hex, and put an 0x in front of it.

And that's where I went wrong. I was under the impression that the 
output of ssha2passwd.pl was hex. Removing 0x from the password string 
works.

Thank you!