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Changelog

• 2007-10-10 - v1.0 - Initial release
• 2007-10-12 - v1.1 - Changed the salt to be a string in the format '$1$xxxxxxxx$' This fixes a problem where only the first 8 characters were useful for generating the hash
• 2007-11-08 - v1.2 - Disabled the checking for the hidden variables in trackbacks, and instead uses a system inspired by the simple-trackback-validation from http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/simple-trackback-validation/ Essentially, make sure that the website referenced matches
  REMOTE_ADDR, and that the page actually contains a link to this blog Thanks to wlx@cngis.org for information on how to handle trackback/pingbacks seperately
• 2007-11-09 - v1.2.1 - Fixed needle/haystack problem with strstr() call An annoying PHP inconsistency
• 2008-05-14 - v1.3 - Fixed a problem where PHP's crypt() function includes the salt inside the encrypted value.
• 2009-01-13 - v1.4 - Auto approve comments submitted by administrators. This fixes the ability to add/edit comments from the admin screens

License

Copyright (c) 2007 - 2009 Brandon Checketts

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.