Re: change password_encryption default to scram-sha-256?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: change password_encryption default to scram-sha-256?
Date: 2019-04-08 20:07:35
Message-ID: 20190408200735.GA15875@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Apr-08, Dave Cramer wrote:

> > IIUC the vast majority of clients already support SCRAM auth. So the
> > vast majority of PG users can take advantage of the additional security.
> > I think the only massive-adoption exception is JDBC, and apparently they
> > already have working patches for SCRAM.
>
> We have more than patches this is already in the driver.
>
> What do you mean by "massive-adoption exception"

I meant an exception to the common situation that SCRAM-SHA-256 is
supported and shipped in stable releases of each driver. The wiki here
still says it's unsupported on JDBC:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers
For once I'm happy to learn that the wiki is outdated :-)

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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