Re: Question regarding whether the Postgres JDBC driver supports - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

Peter E. Chen wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Does anyone know whether or not the Postgres JDBC driver supports password
> encryption?  I have set the AUTHTYPE to "encrypt" and I have been able to
> successfully connect to the database with the JDBC driver.  Does this mean
> that the password via Postgres JDBC is encrypted?  And if so, what type of
> encryption is this?

There is no 'encrypt' auth, just 'crypt' which uses Unix crypt()
encryption.  7.2 will also support MD5 encryption, and encryption of
passwords stored in the server.

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