Re: Proposed patch for key managment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Proposed patch for key managment
Date
Msg-id 20201219202234.GJ28841@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Proposed patch for key managment  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 11:58:37AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> My final point is that we can find ways to do what you are suggesting as
> an addition to what we are adding now.  What we need is clear
> justification of why these additional features are needed.  Requiring
> the use of a true random number generator is a valid argument, but we
> need to figure out, once this is implemented, who really wants that, and
> how to implement it cleanly.

I added a comment to this script to explain how to generate a true
random passphrase, attached.

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