Re: Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Just a reminder. What I think it insecure is the size of our salt.
> > With only 3300 possible salts, it doesn't take long to playback a
> > duplicate. That is true of MD5 and crypt.
>
> But aren't we increasing the size of the salt keyspace for MD5?
> It'd surely be a major oversight not to.

We aren't. I can do that, but have not discussed it yet. If we do it
is clearly a protocol change. How will old clients handle longer salt,
and how do I know if they are older if I don't bump up the protocol
version number?

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