Re: Proposal for encrypting pg_shadow passwords

On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:04 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I assume we will use MD5 for encryption of pg_shadow passwords.  The
> letters "md5" will appear at the start of the password string and it
> will be exactly 35 characters.  Vince sent me the code.  We 
> will need to
> add MD5 capability to libpq, ODBC, and JDBC.  (I hope JDBC will 
> not be a
> problem.)

JDK 1.1 and later has MD5 available; this shouldn't be a problem.

-- Bruce

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