Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption
Date: 2005-12-20 02:01:58
Message-ID: 20051220020158.GA24150@surnet.cl
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> By the way,
>
> I've already implemented this in phpPgAdmin trivially using the md5()
> function. I can't be bothered using a C library function :D

IIRC the whole point of this exercise was to avoid passing the password
to the server in the first place. Unless you are talking about a PHP
md5() password of course ...

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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