| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "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 07:27:01 |
| Message-ID: | 39151AC5.7D570921@tm.ee |
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> So, we're going to go with less security then is available on most Unix
> OSs?
No, the general consensus seems to be using MD5, not the weaker DES
crypt.
> if we are going to do this, *please* just use the regular system
> crypt() function ... for those that are using MD5 for their passwords, at
> least as it is under FreeBSD, crypt() does either MD5 or DES depending on
> the system ...
What does it do to portbility ?
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Hannu
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