Re: MD5-based passwords

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:27:53AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Hey folks,
> > >
> > > I don't see MD5-based password code in the JDBC CVS tree.  Is anyone
> > > working on this?
> > >
> > > I'll take a stab, if not.
> >
> > There is no one working on it.  ODBC needs it too.  It wasn't on the
> > TODO list but I just added it.
> >
> > I can assist with any questions.  See libpq for a sample implementation.
>
> OK, how about this?  Someone will have to help me with appropriate exception
> behavior and where the bytesToHex util is placed.
>
> I'm not clear on the SendInteger(5 + .. code, seen elsewhere.  Why isn't
> this (4 + ...?

OK, now that we have this, what do people want to do with it, 7.2 or
7.3?  It is a feature addition to JDBC to allow MD5 encryption.

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