| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM |
| Date: | 2014-05-01 14:06:39 |
| Message-ID: | CAM-w4HOP8Wv8WEP5vYHR13c=Z95w_i1k136i=Na8DjvNRd_BhQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Well, undocumented and OpenSSL tend to go hand in hand a lot. Or,
>> well, it might be documented, but not in a useful way. I wouldn't
>> count on it.
>
> The OpenSSL code is some of the worst-formatted spaghetti code I've
> ever seen, and the reason I know that is because whenever I try to do
> anything with OpenSSL I generally end up having to read it, precisely
> because, as you say, the documentation is extremely incomplete. I
> hate to be critical of other projects, but everything I've ever done
> with OpenSSL has been difficult, and I really think we should try to
> get less dependent on it rather than more.
I have nothing exciting to add but I happened to be reading this old
thread and thought the above post was relevant again these days.
--
greg
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