Re: You're on SecurityFocus.com for the cleartext passwords.

> 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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