Re: MD5 authentication needs help

* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar  6, 2015 at 07:00:10PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > suggested to me as one change we could make that would reduce the risk
> > of disk-based attacks while trading that off for a higher risk on the
> > side of network-based attacks while not breaking the existing network
> > protocol.  To make it very clear- it is not a solution but rather a poor
> > bandaid.  What we really need is a new password based protocol which is
> > based on a future-proof, well designed protocol, such as SCRAM.
>
> Again, agreed.

Great.

Have you had a chance to review the SCRAM RFC or do you have any
questions as it relates to how SCRAM works?  I'd love to start a proper
discussion about how we go about implementing it.
Thanks!
    Stephen