| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | roji(at)roji(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Update encryption options doc for SCRAM-SHA-256 |
| Date: | 2018-02-03 16:30:51 |
| Message-ID: | 49cbab10-9354-f06e-bcea-6291b6398a28@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2/2/18 18:42, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/encryption-options.html
> Description:
>
> Section "18.8. Encryption Options" only mentions MD5 as the password storage
> encryption mechanism, although PostgreSQL 10 introduced the superior SHA256
> - somebody looking at the docs would get a bad idea of PostgreSQL's
> capabilities...
I propose the attached patch. I have combined the password storage and
password transmission items, because I don't want to go into the details
of how SCRAM works on the wire.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| 0001-doc-Update-mentions-of-MD5-in-the-documentation.patch | text/plain | 2.6 KB |
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