SK.gnome.dwarf.auth.login
Class MD5PasswordEncoder

java.lang.Object
  SK.gnome.dwarf.auth.login.MD5PasswordEncoder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PasswordEncoder

public final class MD5PasswordEncoder

extends java.lang.Object

implements PasswordEncoder

Password encoder based on the MD5 digest.

This class encodes the user password by creating a MD5 digest of it. The digest is then returned as a BASE64-encoded string.

This class may be used to encrypt ASCII passwords only.

Constructor Summary

MD5PasswordEncoder()

Method Summary

boolean	compare(java.lang.String encoded, char[] plain) Compares two passwords.
java.lang.String	encode(char[] password) Encodes a single password.
static java.lang.String	encodePassword(char[] password) Encodes a single password.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Encodes an array of passwords.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MD5PasswordEncoder

public MD5PasswordEncoder()

Method Detail

encodePassword

public static java.lang.String encodePassword(char[] password)

Encodes a single password.

Parameters:

password - the password

Returns:

BASE64-encoded MD5 digest of the password

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Encodes an array of passwords.

The original/encoded pairs are printed to System.out on a separate lines.

Parameters:

args - the passwords to encode

encode

public java.lang.String encode(char[] password)

Description copied from interface: PasswordEncoder

Encodes a single password.

Note that two subsequent calls to this method with the same argument may result in two different strings returned. Use the compare method therefore for comparing the encoded password with its plain format.

Specified by:

encode in interface PasswordEncoder

Parameters:

password - the password

Returns:

the encoded password

compare

public boolean compare(java.lang.String encoded,
                       char[] plain)

Description copied from interface: PasswordEncoder

Compares two passwords.

Specified by:

compare in interface PasswordEncoder

Parameters:

encoded - the encoded password

plain - the plain (non-encoded) password

Returns:

true if the passwords are equal