Minutes of meeting on 4th Sept 2004

Well, no worries. Forums 2.0 already supports SHA-1 hashing. I just need to change a value, hash the password, and it's done. I'll test it on a dummy account first though. *naturally* I'm not too sure if they do encrypt it though. Gotta find out later.

Cheers.

I tot mine is already hashed?

Yes, yours is done manually. I meant to convert the whole db's user's password to hash.

Softwaremaker wrote:

2) Your checking of passwords will involve hashing the incoming passwords and compare to that stored in the DB.

Some notes about the Forums authentication model - Users can have various modes: clear text, MD5, SHA1, etc. The default is MD5, but the majority of old users still use mode "0" - clear text. Those using hashing have a salt factor that is attached to the password. You are unlikely to be able to successfully hash it client-side; it has to be authenticated server-side.

OK. Understood.

Looks like we cant do any client-side hashing with the .Cryptography classes easily...

In that case, we only have 2 options

1) The easiest way would be to use HTTPS / SSL. This can be a FREE option

2) WSE 2.0

Thanks.

Just gone through the slides.. sorry could not make in on saturday as me working. 

Have a suggestion about the IPlugin interface . Make the IPlugin interface implement IDisposable. So the plugin manager can always  call Dispose()  to clear memory references.

Cheers...

Most of the stuff mentioned in the minutes of meeting have been done or seen to.

Mainly they are :

1. 4th User Group Meeting Invitation
--> Actions Taken
     --> TODO in the 5th User Group Meeting

2. SgDotnet Webserver
--> Currently no action is needed

3. Forums & Moderators
--> Actions Taken
     --> "Database and Reporting Services" changed to "Database and ADO.NET"
     --> "Development Best Practices" changed to "Architecture and Development Best Practices"
     --> Updated the Moderator List http://forums.sgdotnet.org/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2282
     --> "Smart Clients" and "Windows Forms" merged into "Windows Forms & Smart Clients"

4. SgDotNet Website
--> Actions Taken
      --> Put on TODO list

5. Key Personnel of SgDotNet
--> Take note that moderators take care of their own TechMilk. Permissions has been fixed.

6. Development
--> Actions Taken
     --> TODO List

6a. Development - Website
--> Actions Taken
      --> TODO List

6b. Development - Nova
--> Actions Taken
      --> TODO List

6c. Development - Subversion
--> A tutorial and explanation to be set up. (under articles)

7. Events
--> Actions Taken
     --> Points taken. Will incorporate into website.

There we go. A summary.

microlau wrote:

Accompanying ppt slides for those who have missed out on the meeting. Once the entire minutes are reviewed, I will join the files together. In the meantime, make do This is Triplez slides on SgDotNet development

maybe we should have an area on the website that provides an archive of all minutes?

correction:

The posting topic will be for a month, not for a week.

and good stuff microlau on the minutes