Re: On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers
Date: 2017-04-21 19:55:38
Message-ID: 44c0cba4-3f06-6c9e-1a98-1bb9621fbec5@iki.fi
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On 04/21/2017 05:33 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 21 April 2017 at 14:42, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>
>>>>> SCRAM-SHA-256$<iteration count>:<salt>$<StoredKey>:<ServerKey>
>>>>
>>>> Could you explain where you are looking? I don't see that in RFC5803
>>>
>> >From 1. Overview:
>>
>> Yeah, it's not easy to see, I missed it earlier too. You have to look at RFC 5803 and RFC 3112 together. RFC 3112 says that the overall format is "<scheme>$<authInfo>$<authValue>", and RFC5803 says that for SCRAM, scheme is "SCRAM-SHA-256" (for our variant), authInfo is "<iteration count>:<salt>" and authValue is "<StoredKey>:<ServerKey>"
>>
>> They really should've included examples in those RFCs.
>
> Thanks
>
> +1 for change

Committed, thanks.

- Heikki

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