The most recent View500 release is version 5.3. Version 5.3 became available on the 15th of November, 2002.

This release included enhancements to the security of passwords within the directory.

Value hashing
View500's proprietary value hashing scheme was implemented into the directory. This value protection scheme is a configurable policy that can be used to protect passwords when they are stored into and returned out of the directory.

The password values can be protected by a range of hash algorithms. When a password is in a hashed format it can be safely returned out of the directory over insecure channels. This is due to the fact that it becomes cryptographically infeasible for an attacker to obtain the user's cleartext password from a hashed version.

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