Re: On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On-disk format of SCRAM verifiers
Date: 2017-04-21 13:21:48
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQ6D6Z12P3dysvxM9O_B1vX2N5jnAWE3yRUpQAL1ezfdw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi) wrote:
>> I think we should adopt that exact format, so that our verifiers are
>> compatible with RFC 5803. It doesn't make any immediate difference,
>> but since there is a standard out there, might as well follow it.
>
> +1
>
>> And just in case we get support for looking up SCRAM verifiers from
>> an LDAP server in the future, it will come handy as we won't need to
>> parse two different formats.
>
> Agreed.

+1 to all that. Consistency is a good thing.
--
Michael

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