Re: does md5 really help against sniffing? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: does md5 really help against sniffing?
Date
Msg-id 20160825224143.GA26412@momjian.us
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In response to does md5 really help against sniffing?  (jens.timmerman@gmail.com)
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:35:17PM +0000, jens.timmerman@gmail.com wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-methods.html
> Description:
>
> this page claims
> 'If you are at all concerned about password "sniffing" attacks then md5 is
> preferred. '
> but how does this really help? If an md5 hash is enough to get access, then
> sniffing an md5has is actually the same as sniffing the password?'

There is random salt added to the network md5 hash.  Please read the
docs on this.

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