Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords

From: Oleg Broytmann <phd(at)emerald(dot)netskate(dot)ru>
To: Gene Sokolov <hook(at)aktrad(dot)ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck(at)rinet(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords
Date: 1999-08-02 13:37:20
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.04.9908021735440.12134-100000@emerald.netskate.ru
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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gene Sokolov wrote:
> > For the first question, I remember hackers had decided not to implement
> > it - it is more important to send crypted passwords over the wires, right?
>
> No. You can do both. That decision was based on incomplete knowledge.

Aha, I haven't followd that thread carefully. Well, how I can do one
thing or another?

> Gene Sokolov.

Oleg.
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