Re: PostgreSQL Password Cracker

Tom Lane wrote:

>Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)tr(dot)net> writes:
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>>I had no time to search throug the code; but as far as I understood, it
>>*attacks* the database servers with TCP/IP on, right?
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>No, the program itself simply takes an MD5 hash value and does a
>brute-force search for a password that generates that MD5 string.
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>The comments at the top suggest sniffing a Postgres session startup
>exchange in order to see the MD5 value that the user presents; which the
>attacker would then give to this program. (Forget it if the session is
>Unix-local rather than TCP, or if it's SSL-encrypted...)
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>This is certainly a theoretically possible attack against someone who
>has no clue about security, but I don't put any stock in it as a
>practical attack. For starters, if you are talking to your database
>across a network that is open to hostile sniffers, you should definitely
>be using SSL.
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This is absolutely correct, shouldn't this be in the FAQ?

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