| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Julian Markwort <julian(dot)markwort(at)uni-muenster(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Valery Popov <v(dot)popov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
| Subject: | Re: Password identifiers, protocol aging and SCRAM protocol |
| Date: | 2016-09-28 19:06:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20160928190643.GY5148@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Heikki, Michael, Magnus,
* Michael Paquier (michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> > The libpq-side is not. Just calling random() won't do. We haven't needed for
> > random numbers in libpq before, but now we do. Is the pgcrypto solution
> > portable enough that we can use it in libpq?
>
> Do you think that urandom would be enough then? The last time I took a
> look at that, I saw urandom on all modern platforms even those ones:
> OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, SunOS. For Windows the CryptGen stuff would
> be nice enough I guess..
Magnus had been working on a patch that, as I recall, he thought was
portable and I believe could be used on both sides.
Magnus, would what you were working on be helpful here...?
Thanks!
Stephen
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