RE: ODBC and crypted passwords

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: pgsql-interfaces-owner@hub.org
> [mailto:pgsql-interfaces-owner@hub.org]En nombre de Henk van Lingen
> Enviado el: sábado, 08 de abril de 2000 16:35
> Para: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> Asunto: [INTERFACES] ODBC and crypted passwords
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing with the ODBC driver (which works fine) but I like passwords
> to travel encrypted, which is not supported at the moment.
>
> Is there any work being done on this? The TODO says (in 1998) that the
> priority is low. Why is that? I can't believe nobody ever needed this.
> If I'm not mistaken the only way to use ODBC right now is to simply trust
> a host or accept plain passwords. Is there something which makes a 'crypt'
> implementation hard?


I'm really interested in this feature too.
Actually I must trust every IP, so my only security is in passwords. An
anybody with a sniffer in my ISP can see the passwords.

Thank you.