| 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: So we're in agreement.... |
| Date: | 2000-05-07 03:21:11 |
| Message-ID: | 200005070321.XAA28233@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> So we're in agreement on using MD5. Sverre, is the offer still open
> for the java MD5 you wrote? I'll translate it to C and make sure it
> will compile/run/give-correct-results on as many platforms as possible
> including DOS/Windows, hpux, FreeBSD and IRIX.
Yes, MD5, double-crypt with pg_shadow salt and random salt. Sounds like
a winner all around.
And finally, we need a trigger to somehow update non-md5 strings in the
pg_shadow password field. No one is sure how to do that yet.
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