[RADIATOR] AuthBy SQLTOTP doc bugs

Mike McCauley mikem at open.com.au
Thu Aug 23 03:08:07 CDT 2012


Hi Ray,


On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 04:26:34 PM Roy Badami wrote:
> While playing with the AuthBy SQLTOTP module, I came across a couple of
> errors in the documentation of the AuthSelect parameter (section 5.82.2
> of the reference manual).
> 
> * The description and default query are missing field 6
> (last_timestep).  This is particularly unfortunate, because if you use
> the query from the documentation,  or a similar query based on it that
> omits field 6, then you lose replay protection.  (The actual default
> query in AuthSQLTOTP.pm is correct, however.)

Fixed for the next release.

> 
> * The documentation describes field 0 as the HEX encoded AES secret.  In
> fact, TOTP does not use AES, it uses HMAC-SHA1.

Fixed for the next release.

> 
> The SQLHOTP doc contains the same error re AES - I haven't verified the
> query in the doc as I've not played with that module.

Fixed for the next release.
Also updated examples in goodies in the latest patch set

Thanks for reporting these.

Cheers.

> 
> Regards
> 
> roy
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