| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl>, Lexington Luthor <Lexington(dot)Luthor(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Generating unique session ids |
| Date: | 2006-07-27 15:40:22 |
| Message-ID: | 44C8DE66.60207@commandprompt.com |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> * Any database user is most of the time able to read function
>>> bodies, so anybody who is able co connect to your database will be
>>> able to get your 'secret_salt' and then predict session id's.
>> Yeah, it's not clear where to hide the secret.
>
> In a memfrob'ed (or something better probably) area in a C function?
You could also do it in a untrusted plperl or plpython function.
Joshua D. Drake
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