The admin guide for Liferay 6.0.6 and 6.1 is telling us that SHA-512 is not supported for setting in property passwords.encryption.algorithm of portal-ext.properties. Does anyone know what this statement possibly means?
In the source code I found that most supported encryption algorithms in the end are just taken from the underlying Java runtime: java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(String algorithm)
As I know that the MessageDigest class in Java 6 does provide a SHA-512 implementation I just tried to configure SHA-512 in portal-ext.properties and, paff!, it seems to work. Any ideas?
