| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com> |
| Cc: | teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind Glomsrd), Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Sverre H(dot) Huseby" <sverrehu(at)online(dot)no>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords. |
| Date: | 2000-05-06 22:02:07 |
| Message-ID: | 12142.957650527@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Robert B. Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com> writes:
> Would public/private key pair authentication (like GPG) or SSL-like solutions
> work?
We already have SSL support --- that's why I wasn't especially excited
about making the password challenge itself be proof against sniffing.
Anybody who's afraid of sniffing attacks ought to be SSL-ifying his
entire database connection, not just trying to protect the password.
regards, tom lane
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