| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(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 15:48:41 |
| Message-ID: | 200005061548.LAA12370@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > This has the huge advantage of not requiring any new crypting methods on
> > the client. It only requires the crypt to happen twice using two
> > different salts.
> >
> > Sounds like a winner. Comments?
>
> Overlycomplicated?
>
> What was your objection to MD5 again?
Not really. We are using our same unix crypt code, which works on all
platforms. The change to each interface is minimal. Not much testing
will be required.
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