Re: Not storing MD5 hashed passwords

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Not storing MD5 hashed passwords
Date: 2015-10-15 00:49:59
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQpr81fNEjkMg8haN-TZ56FBVVWouxDhpxNFNzRofE7aw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:41 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/14/2015 1:31 PM, Quiroga, Damian wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Does postgres support other (stronger) hashing algorithms than MD5 to
>> store the database passwords at disk?
>>
>> If not, is there any plan to move away from MD5?
> There are proposals to do so, the most advanced one I know of is with SCRAM.
> But I don't think any of them have turned into actual plans yet.

I would not be so sure, I heard of a patch regarding that for 9.6:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/6/320/
--
Michael

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