Re: md5 again

> 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.

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