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

From Arthur Silva
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Msg-id CAO_YK0XOFHnqiGa0S_kjL_5V5_jYz=j1=RXh4QKRraZvSSNKcA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: reducing our reliance on MD5  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: reducing our reliance on MD5  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:19 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?

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Peter Geoghegan

I assume if the hacker can intercept the server unencrypted traffic and/or has access to its hard-drive the database is compromised anyway.

I maybe missing something though.

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