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

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation
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Msg-id 20170412164204.GC9812@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom, all,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> ... which the user can't tell apart from having fat-fingered the password,
> I suppose?  Doesn't sound terribly friendly.  A report of a certificate
> mismatch is far more likely to lead people to realize there's a MITM.

We might be able to improve on that.

> So this seems more like a hack than like a feature we need so desperately
> as to push it into v10 post-freeze.

Channel binding certainly isn't a 'hack' and is something we should
support, but I agree that it doesn't need to go into v10.

Thanks!

Stephen

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