| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: MD5 authentication needs help |
| Date: | 2015-03-07 17:52:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20150307175215.GH29780@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 07:00:10PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > suggested to me as one change we could make that would reduce the risk
> > of disk-based attacks while trading that off for a higher risk on the
> > side of network-based attacks while not breaking the existing network
> > protocol. To make it very clear- it is not a solution but rather a poor
> > bandaid. What we really need is a new password based protocol which is
> > based on a future-proof, well designed protocol, such as SCRAM.
>
> Again, agreed.
Great.
Have you had a chance to review the SCRAM RFC or do you have any
questions as it relates to how SCRAM works? I'd love to start a proper
discussion about how we go about implementing it.
Thanks!
Stephen
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