Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, mlortiz <mlortiz(at)uci(dot)cu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date: 2009-09-28 18:40:15
Message-ID: 603c8f070909281140h31d2150dtd14b00b49b101c59@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> So promoting the ENCRYPTED 'foo' as "secure" may lure users into
> false sense of security, and be lax against sniffing and logfile
> protection.

ENCRYPTED prevents the user's password from being stolen by a modified server.

...Robert

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