> On Sat, 6 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > > Sounds like a winner. Comments?
> > >
> > > Overlycomplicated?
> > >
> > > What was your objection to MD5 again?
> >
> > Also, MD5 is not ideal for passwords. Seems the standard unix-style
> > password crypting is the standard, so it should be used to crypt our own
> > passwords in pg_shadow. I am sure someone would find some problem with
> > us using md5 for password storage.
>
> FreeBSD uses MD5 by default since at least ver 2.2, possibly earlier.
Oh, I didn't know that. Interesting.
>
> > We already use the unix-style password crypt to send passwords over the
> > wire. Why not use it for storage too?
>
> Can ALL clients we support use it over the wire?
That is an excellent question. Any client that can use passwords has to
do this, so yes, I think they all do. I can say for sure Java has it,
and that is usually the hardest.
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