Re: Not storing MD5 hashed passwords - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Not storing MD5 hashed passwords
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Msg-id 561EBE0C.1070200@hogranch.com
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In response to Not storing MD5 hashed passwords  ("Quiroga, Damian" <damian.quiroga@intel.com>)
Responses Re: Not storing MD5 hashed passwords  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On 10/14/2015 1:31 PM, Quiroga, Damian wrote:

 

Does postgres support other (stronger) hashing algorithms than MD5 to store the database passwords at disk?

If not, is there any plan to move away from MD5?

 


if you can read the password database, you already have superuser access to the full database.... so what threat does a stronger hash address?

if you need stronger security, don't use passwords, use ssl certificates, or LDAP, or something.

-- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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