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by joshfraser 3267 days ago
Stupid question, but what does this particular password hash unlock?
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I was wondering, too. From the article,

>"I hope like me you were immediately drawn to the ‘auth’ fields. As the name implies this field contains authentication information for controlling this object in the RIPE database. RIPE supports a couple of different auth types like Single Sign On (SSO), public key cryptography, and of course md5."

It's authentication to manage that entry in the RIPE database.