md5plain

Documentation

Overview

Package md5plain provides verification of plain md5 digests of passwords without salt.

Note that md5 is considered cryptographically broken and should not be used for new applications. This package is only provided for legacy applications that wish to migrate away from md5 to newer hashing methods.

Index

• Variables
• func Verify(digest, password string) (verifier.Result, error)

Variables

var Verifier = verifier.VerifyFunc(Verify)

Functions

func Verify

func Verify(digest, password string) (verifier.Result, error)

Verify an plain md5 digest without salt. Digest must be hex encoded.

Note that md5 digests do not have an identifier. Therefore it might be that Verify accepts any hex encoded string but fails password verification.