Re: MD5 authentication needs help

On Sat, Mar  7, 2015 at 12:52:15PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * 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.

I am feeling we have to wait for 9.5 to settle first.

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