Re: SCRAM authentication, take three

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, magnus(at)hagander(dot)net, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: SCRAM authentication, take three
Date: 2017-04-11 01:52:21
Message-ID: f7cc4517-638b-6b63-84e8-f4892a814573@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/10/17 04:27, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> One thing to consider is that we just made the decision that "md5"
> actually means "md5 or scram-sha-256". Extrapolating from that, I think
> we'll want "scram-sha-256" to mean "scram-sha-256 or scram-sha-256-plus"
> (i.e. the channel-bonding variant) in the future. And if we get support
> for scram-sha-512, "scram-sha-256" would presumably allow that too.

But how would you choose between scram-sha-256-plus and scram-sha-512?

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