Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, mlortiz(at)uci(dot)cu, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date: 2009-09-28 22:52:56
Message-ID: 4AC13E48.1070009@agliodbs.com
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> It takes about 32 hours to brute force all passwords from [a-zA-Z0-9]
> of up to 8 chars in length.

That would be a reason to limit the number of failed connection attempts
from a single source, then, rather than a reason to change the hash
function.

Hmmm, that would be a useful, easy (I think) security feature: add a GUC
for failed_logins_allowed.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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