On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber writes:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > If I recall the prior discussion, MD5 is OK, crypt is still risky,
> > > because MD5 is not an encryption algorithm so it doesn't fall under
> > > the US export laws.
> > >
> > > I believe Vince V. is working on improving the password challenge
> > > code to use MD5, btw.
> >
> > yep.
>
> If you do that, maybe also look at the secondary password files. We
> probably don't want those using a different encryption method.
>
>
> (backward compatibility alarm goes off in the distance...)
Already thinking about that.
Vince.
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