<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear colleague,</div><div><br></div><div>Since any change in the current process means significantly changing the behaviour of the RIPE Database* and will break existing use cases of the system, it is not something the RIPE NCC can make a decision on. </div><div>The change should come from and get approved by the community and the RIPE NCC can then implement it. Obviously we as RIPE NCC can suggest technical solutions -and that's why we have brought up the issue on different occasions- but still, agreeing on and implementing them will require community's consensus.</div><div><br></div><div>In the mean time we are publishing an article on RIPE Labs outlining the current situation and highlighting the problem statement as well as guidelines for mitigating the risk until a full solution is found. </div><div>We are also adding a password strength indicator to the online MD5 hash generator as an additional measure.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div>Kaveh Ranjbar,</div><div>RIPE Database Group Manager</div><div><br></div><div>*- As an example, current Update process requires the full object -including the hashes for maintainer objects- to be used in the update message.</div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>On Nov 8, 2011, at 3:01 PM, virtu virtualabs wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">That would mean RIPE NCC did not do anything while people has been aware of this fact since 2 years ?</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>