[Apologies for duplicate mails] Dear Colleagues, The CRYPT-PW deprecation project ends today, Wednesday, 21 February 2007. From today, the following changes will apply: * CRYPT-PW passwords will be disabled in the syntax * CRYPT-PW passwords will be disabled in authorisation * CRYPT-PW passwords will be removed from existing maintainer objects If a maintainer object contained CRYPT-PW passwords only, the passwords were replaced with a randomly generated MD5-PW password. If a maintainer object used an authentication method that was not CRYPT-PW, the CRYPT-PW auth: lines have been removed. To retrieve the removed CRYPT-PW passwords, please visit: https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/crypt2md5.cgi The RIPE NCC has recently upgraded its mail servers to support TLS/SSL. If you are updating the RIPE Database by email, please use an SMTP server that supports TLS/SSL. This will protect your data where possible. The use of an SMTP server that supports TLS/SSL is particularly important if you use cleartext password (MD5-PW) for authentication instead of PGP or X509. More information is available at: http://ripe.net/news/tls.html Notification e-mails will be sent today to over 5100 e-mail addresses. A total of 2337 objects had CRYPT-PW authentication only. Another 179 objects had other authentication methods in addition to CRYPT-PW. More information about the project is available at: http://www.ripe.net/db/support/security/crypt-pw_deprecation/ If you have any questions, contact: ripe-dbm@ripe.net. Regards, Agoston Horvath Database Group RIPE NCC