Introducing Authgasm: "Rails authentication done right".

by evdawg on 10/27/2008, 4:28 AM with 30 comments
  • by tptacek on 10/27/2008, 5:13 AM

    Sigh. Just what we needed; another authentication plugin... that uses crackable salted SHA256 to store web passwords. Of course, it provides a plugin interface --- including, inexplicably, support for symmetrically (ie, recoverably) encrypting passwords. What it doesn't do is support bcrypt-ruby, which is the only correct answer to this problem.

  • by sunkencity on 10/27/2008, 7:07 AM

    I would be very happy if they could move in some standard user authentication into rails. Tired of the stream of plugins that become abandonware in a couple of months.

  • by binarylogic on 11/25/2008, 2:47 AM

    This discussion is moot since Authlogic easily supports BCrypt:

    http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/22/storing-nuclear-launch...

  • by siong1987 on 10/27/2008, 5:16 AM

    I really like the name. I may try it out just because of the name.

    Authgasm.