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Re: [HACKERS] CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method') - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')
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Msg-id CA+Tgmob=R7sPk2bGPGoVcYF_pu1UXzkvSPYT4wPsT591u9+g1g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD ('value' USING 'method')  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
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On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I agree with that for MD5, and after looking around I can see
> (like here http://prosody.im/doc/plain_or_hashed) as well that
> SCRAM-hashed is used. Now, there are as well references to the salt,
> like in protocol.sgml:
> "The salt to use when encrypting the password."
> Joe, do you think that in this case using the term "hashing" would be
> more appropriate? I would think so as we use it to hash the password.

I'm not Joe, but I think that would be more appropriate.

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Robert Haas
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