Workaround for broken crypt() in PHP 5.3.7

at 2011-08-21 in Announcements by friebe (0 comments)

PHP 5.3.7 contains a broken crypt() implementation when using MD5 method (the one where the salt parameter starts with "$1$") on Un*x systems - see PHP bug #55439. The XP Framework's security.crypto.UnixCrypt class now contains a workaround for this problem - realized by implementing the MD5 crypting algorithm in userland PHP.

This fix will first appear in XP 5.8.2.