User password encryption using a stronger hashing function? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Liu, Jianli (Jianli)
Subject User password encryption using a stronger hashing function?
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Msg-id 47AB18AC0F23934383F2BBA7EE3D8D742281BB698C@DC-US1MBEX4.global.avaya.com
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Responses Re: User password encryption using a stronger hashing function?  ("Liu, Jianli (Jianli)" <jlliu@avaya.com>)
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By default, postgresql encrypts user passwords using the MD5 hashing function. They can be seen as "md5....." in the rolpassword column of the pg_authid table. Is there a mechanism that allows us to change this default behavior such that postgresql can encrypt the passwords stored in the pg_authid table using a stronger hashing function such as SHA1?

 

Postgresql conf file has a property "ssl_ciphers" in which you can specify a list of ciphers. But they are only used on ssl connections and have no impact on the ciphers used in user password encryption. Is this correct?

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