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Arjen Hoekema wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm trying to integrate Sympa into our website and would like to use my 
> own login procedure and then write a cookie that Sympa checks for the 
> login.
>
> I'm following the instructions in the manual, but when I write the 
> cookie, the checksum I get is 32 characters long and the Sympa cookie 
> shows a checksum of only 8 bytes???
>
> Could somebody please help me???

The documentation says :

"The cookie format is : sympauser=<user_email>:<md5>

where <user_email> is the user's complete e-mail address, and <md5> is a MD5 
checksum of the <user_email>+Sympa cookie configuration parameter."

In fact the long MD5 fingerprint is not usefull and sympa use only a 
substring based on the 8 first bytes. Check coolib.pm, subroutine get_mac .
So you report a bug of the documentation.

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Serge Aumont