fucking md5. which one of the devs thought this would be a good idea?
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Seriously. MD5 is in no way secure. At the very minimum it should have been encrypted with an algo that isn't already broken. Pretty disappointed in the TP devs TBH. That's not an oversight, that's a complete and utter disregard for the safety of their users information
What's crazy is that I think this service was developed after md5 was shown to be widely compromised (2011-2012). Not 100% sure though, I wasn't able to find an exact release date.
Even so, after it was cracked that should have been the #1 priority to fix. There’s absolutely no way it’s acceptable that they haven’t fixed it 10 years down the line.
Unfortunutly there is no other service like it so they can afford to be lax cause you know. Who else is going to do it? Be interesting if someone does get compromised and given the clear lack of effort in properly securing the personal data if they attempt to seek damages against TP
@BURN they should at least use bcrypt
That’s my go-to for any password encoding
Hopefully this gets iRacing to open up their oAuth portal to external apps and someone can develop something more secure.
It really shouldn’t be that hard. It’s an account management and CDN software, it honestly can’t be that hard to build a properly hardened version
Wow they really didn't try at all to be even somewhat secure.
Not even the bare minimum of effort. It’s really disappointing.
A first year CS student knows better than to md5 hash passwords, let alone without a salt