mail/dovecot sodium not enabled

[Adam Weinberger]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:44 AM Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 10:51:16AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:00:56 +0100, Matthias Fechner stated:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I just saw that sodium is explicitely disabled:
> > >CONFIGURE_ARGS= --localstatedir=/var \
> > >                 --with-statedir=/var/db/dovecot \
> > >                 --without-shadow \
> > >                 --without-sodium \
> > >
> > >by disabling it, dovecot cannot use argon2 as hash for passwords which
> > >is recommended for new deployments and developments.
> > >
> > >Is there a special reason why this was disabled?
> > >
> > >Thanks a lot.
> >
> > I was just going to post a question regarding that myself.
> I've added a libsodium option in r486595.
>
> I inherited the port, and the previous maintainer had made that
> decision.

It's all true! At the time, I couldn't get the NaCl support to compile
and gave up. I'm glad to see it's working now!

# Adam


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