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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com>, Benjamin Adida <ben(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.
Date: 2000-05-07 04:10:02
Message-ID: 13140.957672602@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> So far, no one is excited about this so I will not push it anymore.

> Seems like that could be a solution, but we are trying not to bloat the
> PostgreSQL tarball. Shipping SSH would certainly do that.

We already have the ability to work with an externally provided SSL
library. Right at the moment I don't see the merit of folding SSL
into the Postgres distribution instead.

regards, tom lane

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