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Native authentication - response challenge 32 bytes
Posted by: Andrew Gee
Date: March 10, 2021 09:35AM

According to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-server/latest/page_protocol_connection_phase_authentication_methods_native_password_authentication.html the response challenge should be 20 bytes long.

However when I observe the packet Workbench, sends, it appears to be 32 bytes long.

Similar to this:

32,68,173,13,231,191,161,153,30,41,21,250,249,153,135,133,13,173,255,39,196,221,237,165,245,13,184,232,15,239,171,236,230

Other clients, such as Navicat appear to send 20 bytes (which is what I'd expect). Similar to this:

20,35,28,96,65,93,1,49,22,163,0,167,200,192,101,93,181,151,68,156,125

Why does this discrepancy exist? Is it something to do with the Hex() function that this document mentions:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/x-protocol-authentication-authentication.html

How would you convert from the 20 byte format to the 32 byte format?

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