Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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...)


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