Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.

From: "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.
Date: 2000-05-07 21:04:52
Message-ID: 00050717121804.04750@comptechnews
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On Sun, 07 May 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
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> But how will you know if the data in the field is md5 hashed ?

I think they begin with $1$ and that the salt in the hashed string is like this:

$1$<salt>$ -- a total of 12 characters of salt if you include the $1$$
characters. <salt> is 9 characters. Someone can correct me if this is not
true. I'm not an expert. :)

Robert B. Easter
reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com

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