| From: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, 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: So we're in agreement.... |
| Date: | 2000-05-07 22:56:09 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0005071852110.13987-100000@paprika.michvhf.com |
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On Sun, 7 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Using the username instead of an independent random value to salt the
> stored password is not a small change, it is a fundamental weakening of
> the security system.
That's what I was doing, substituting the original random salt for the
username.
> If you don't see that this is so then you don't
> understand anything about cryptography.
Was this smartass comment really necessary, Tom?
Vince.
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