Re: Successor of MD5 authentication, let's use SCRAM

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> Well, undocumented and OpenSSL tend to go hand in hand a lot. Or,
>> well, it might be documented, but not in a useful way. I wouldn't
>> count on it.
>
> The OpenSSL code is some of the worst-formatted spaghetti code I've
> ever seen, and the reason I know that is because whenever I try to do
> anything with OpenSSL I generally end up having to read it, precisely
> because, as you say, the documentation is extremely incomplete.  I
> hate to be critical of other projects, but everything I've ever done
> with OpenSSL has been difficult, and I really think we should try to
> get less dependent on it rather than more.

I have nothing exciting to add but I happened to be reading this old
thread and thought the above post was relevant again these days.


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greg