Re: Connect to postgres from a dynamic IP

Jorge Godoy wrote:
> Em Monday 03 March 2008 13:17:03 você escreveu:
>> My understanding is no password is sent in the clear with md5 per:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/auth-methods.html#AUTH-PASSW
>> ORD
>
> But the MD5 hash is.  This page states that the password can't be directly
> sniffed, but one can still get the hash of the password and perform a
> dictionary attack against it on a local copy (i.e., without ever trying to
> connect to the server).
>
> After a successful attack then one can connect directly to the server as if
> the password was known to him/her.
>

No sense in pretending. I should think that password *would* be known in
that scenario.

(ignoring hash collisions, of course)