Re: [GENERAL] SHA1 on postgres 8.3

There isn't enough agreement to move some things from pgcrypto to the
core so this thread is being removed from the patch queue.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I am not thrilled about moving _some_ of pgcrypto into the backend ---
> pgcrypto right now seems well designed and if we pull part of it out it
> seems it will be less clear than what we have now. Perhaps we just need
> to document that md5() isn't for general use and some function in
> pgcrypto should be used instead?
>
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> Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On 1/21/08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > > MD5 is broken in the sense that you can create two or more meaningful
> > > > documents with the same hash.
> > >
> > > Note that this isn't actually very interesting for the purpose for
> > > which the md5() function was put into core: namely, hashing passwords
> > > before they are stored in pg_authid.
> >
> > Note: this was bad idea. The function that should have been
> > added to core would be pg_password_hash(username, password).
> >
> > Adding md5() lessens incentive to install pgcrypto or push/accept
> > digest() into core and gives impression there will be sha1(), etc
> > in the future.
> >
> > Now users who want to store passwords in database (the most
> > popular usage) will probably go with md5() without bothering
> > with pgcrypto. They probably see "Postgres itself uses MD5 too",
> > without realizing their situation is totally different from
> > pg_authid one.
> >
> > It's like we have solution that is ACID-compliant 99% of the time in core,
> > so why bother with 100% one.
> >
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