Re: reducing our reliance on MD5 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Claudio Freire
Subject Re: reducing our reliance on MD5
Date
Msg-id CAGTBQpbWvMy_eOhQMhZy6FKhBqLDZKw+rq3A_ePnk9tK4nAYQg@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: reducing our reliance on MD5  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: reducing our reliance on MD5  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Arthur Silva <arthurprs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think the "password storing best practices" apply to db connection
>> authentication.
>
> Why not?


Usually because handshakes use a random salt on both sides. Not sure
about pg's though, but in general collision strength is required but
not slowness, they're not bruteforceable.



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: Re: GRANT USAGE on FOREIGN SERVER exposes passwords
Next
From: Jim Nasby
Date:
Subject: Re: Manipulating complex types as non-contiguous structures in-memory