Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.7.2
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None
Description
For storing passwords in our configuration I'd like to implement a 2 stage approach to symmetric encryption.
The current ideas is to have an encrypted hash derived from a master password and machine specific information (MAC, IP, expiry date, etc).
This encrypted sequence is different on every box. But the decrypted hash is not.
With this hash we can encode a user password, which is then ofc the same on different boxes.
Of course all that is just security by obscurity, but it's still much better than plaintext and even close to Hashicorp Vault.
After all, the only really secure way is using a hardware crypto box plus the user has to manually provide a password and not using static passwords but 1-time consumable tokens.