On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 9:49 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> In the password authentication case, the authentication
> protocol itself does not use MD5, and MD5 password storage is already
> warned about when the verifier is created.
Presumably the verifier was created a while back, though, in the case
of an upgrade. Personally I think it makes sense to warn whenever the
MD5 hash is used to authenticate.
No opinion on the patch implementation, though (cc'd Nathan who might?).
--Jacob