| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted |
| Date: | 2000-07-08 14:25:49 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0007081607340.348-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Vince Vielhaber writes:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > If I recall the prior discussion, MD5 is OK, crypt is still risky,
> > because MD5 is not an encryption algorithm so it doesn't fall under
> > the US export laws.
> >
> > I believe Vince V. is working on improving the password challenge
> > code to use MD5, btw.
>
> yep.
If you do that, maybe also look at the secondary password files. We
probably don't want those using a different encryption method.
(backward compatibility alarm goes off in the distance...)
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Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
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