Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gene Sokolov
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords
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In response to [GENERAL] database access authentication: crypted passwords  (Oleg Broytmann <phd@emerald.netskate.ru>)
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From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@emerald.netskate.ru>
>    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.

Gene Sokolov.





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