Re: Is md5 really more secure than crypt?

"murphy pope" <pope_murphy@hotmail.com> writes:
> But, if can peek at the server's user/password checksum (in the pg_pwd
> file), I can connect to a server, get the server's salt, and combine it with
> the stolen checksum, arriving at the checksum expected by the server.

Hmm.  The double hashing scheme was supposed to prevent that attack,
but looking at the code I think maybe it got implemented incorrectly.
We should go back and look at the design discussions to see if this
wasn't foreseen.

            regards, tom lane