Re: [HACKERS] On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [HACKERS] On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers
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Msg-id CAB7nPqQ6D6Z12P3dysvxM9O_B1vX2N5jnAWE3yRUpQAL1ezfdw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka@iki.fi) wrote:
>> I think we should adopt that exact format, so that our verifiers are
>> compatible with RFC 5803. It doesn't make any immediate difference,
>> but since there is a standard out there, might as well follow it.
>
> +1
>
>> And just in case we get support for looking up SCRAM verifiers from
>> an LDAP server in the future, it will come handy as we won't need to
>> parse two different formats.
>
> Agreed.

+1 to all that. Consistency is a good thing.
-- 
Michael



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