[jira] Updated: (DERBY-3014) Make SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_GET_DATABASE_PROPERTY('derby.user.') return NULL instead of the hash value of the password

["R VIDYA LAKSHMI (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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R VIDYA LAKSHMI updated DERBY-3014:
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    Attachment: DERBY-3014.diff

Instead of returning null, we made the function to return " ******* " in accordance with the previous comment.
Please refer the diff file for further information.

> Make SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_GET_DATABASE_PROPERTY('derby.user.<username>')  return NULL instead of the hash value of the password
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>
>                 Key: DERBY-3014
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3014
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Security
>            Reporter: Daniel John Debrunner
>            Assignee: R VIDYA LAKSHMI
>         Attachments: DERBY-3014.diff
>
>
> Increases security by providing less information to any attacker. The current returned hash value could be used in an off-line dictionary based attack to find a valid password.

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