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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords


From: Tino Wildenhain <tino () wildenhain de>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:06:37 +0200

Am Mittwoch, den 20.04.2005, 16:23 -0500 schrieb Jim C. Nasby:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:03:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
...
Simply put, MD5 is no longer strong enough for protecting secrets. It's
just too easy to brute-force. SHA1 is ok for now, but it's days are
numbered as well. I think it would be good to alter SHA1 (or something
stronger) as an alternative to MD5, and I see no reason not to use a
random salt instead of username.

I wonder where you want to store that random salt and how this would add
to the security.

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Tino Wildenhain <tino () wildenhain de>


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