Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation
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Msg-id 0711fe6c-557d-806c-14b4-f363b65e822b@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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On 4/11/17 09:03, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I would expect most enterprise customers who care about MITM protection
> are already using either TLS or ipsec to cover that already. They have
> benefit from the other parts of SCRAM, but they've already solved those
> problems.

Yeah, I think if you're concerned about MITM then you would also be
concerned about MITM siphoning off your data.  So you should be using
TLS and then you don't need channel binding.

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