Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords

From: "Gene Sokolov" <hook(at)aktrad(dot)ru>
To: <phd2(at)earthling(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords
Date: 1999-08-02 13:17:37
Message-ID: 19d801bedce9$63f390f0$0d8cdac3@aktrad.ru
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From: Oleg Broytmann <phd(at)emerald(dot)netskate(dot)ru>
> For the first question, I remember hackers had decided not to implement
> it - it is more important to send crypted passwords over the wires, right?

No. You can do both. That decision was based on incomplete knowledge.

Gene Sokolov.

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