Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords
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Msg-id 20050422000529.GJ29028@ns.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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* Bruno Wolff III (bruno@wolff.to) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 22:27:01 -0400,
>   Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > SHA2 would also be nice.
>
> I think the new hash functions are called SHA256 and SHA512.
> For Postgres' purposes the recent weaknesses found in SHA1 and MD5
> aren't a big deal.

Well, alright, SHA256 and SHA512.  It would be nice to have Postgres
support them.
Stephen

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