| From: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Sverre H(dot) Huseby" <sverrehu(at)online(dot)no>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords. |
| Date: | 2000-05-06 16:09:13 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0005061206420.13987-100000@paprika.michvhf.com |
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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Sounds like a winner. Comments?
> >
> > Overlycomplicated?
> >
> > What was your objection to MD5 again?
>
> Also, MD5 is not ideal for passwords. Seems the standard unix-style
> password crypting is the standard, so it should be used to crypt our own
> passwords in pg_shadow. I am sure someone would find some problem with
> us using md5 for password storage.
FreeBSD uses MD5 by default since at least ver 2.2, possibly earlier.
> We already use the unix-style password crypt to send passwords over the
> wire. Why not use it for storage too?
Can ALL clients we support use it over the wire?
Vince.
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