Dear working group, We have just deployed whois release 1.80.1 to production. We have seen some cases where users were not aware that passwords had been removed from their maintainer, and they would only get an "authorisation failed" error. To help these users debug this issue better we now also include the following warning in case one or more of the maintainers had any passwords removed: "MD5 passwords older than November 2011 were removed for one or more maintainers of this object, see: https://www.ripe.net/removed2011pw" Example case (used by us for testing):

The following object(s) were found to have ERRORS:

--- Create FAILED: [person] AP1-TEST Another Person

person: Another Person address: Some Address phone: +12 345 678 90 nic-hdl: AP1-TEST mnt-by: OWNER-MNT source: TEST

***Error: Authorisation for [person] AP1-TEST failed using "mnt-by:" not authenticated by: OWNER-MNT

***Warning: MD5 passwords older than November 2011 were removed for one or more maintainers of this object, see: https://www.ripe.net/removed2011pw

Kind regards, Tim Bruijnzeels Assistant Manager Software Engineering RIPE NCC Database Team