Re: md5 again

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > And so would the postmaster ;-). The problem here is that the hashed
> > username has to be sent, and there can be no hidden salt involved
> > since it's the first step of the protocol. So the attacker knows
> > exactly what the hashed username is, and if he can guess the username
> > then he can verify it. Then he moves on to guessing/verifying the
> > password. I still don't see a material gain in security here, given
> > that I believe usernames are likely to be pretty easy to guess.
>
> Just do a 'ps' and you have the username for each connection.

True, but I was more concerned with remote sniffing.

Vince.
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