[jira] [Commented] (OAK-2107) Remove the MongoGridFSBlobStore implementation

["Chetan Mehrotra (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chetan Mehrotra commented on OAK-2107:
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+1 to remove it for now as its not being used (and also not recommended) and MongoBlobStore suprecedes it. If required it can be resurected back

> Remove the MongoGridFSBlobStore implementation
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OAK-2107
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-2107
>             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mongomk
>            Reporter: Thomas Mueller
>            Assignee: Thomas Mueller
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.1
>
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> The MongoGridFSBlobStore implementation relies on using MD5 as the content hash, which is dangerous. This isn't a problem of GridFS itself, but of MongoGridFSBlobStore.
> For security reasons, we would need to use SHA-2 (or at least SHA-1). It doesn't look like it would be easy to change MongoGridFSBlobStore, because "md5" is used internally by GridFS (but not actually as the content hash).
> So either we make a bigger change to MongoGridFSBlobStore, or we remove it. I think we should remove it, as we have a good alternative (the MongoBlobStore, which uses SHA-256, but not GridFS).



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