Re: ODBC problem - crypt..

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
..
> We have talked about adding a higher-security login protocol --- you can
> find past threads about this in the pghackers archive.  IIRC a fairly
> complete design was worked out, but no one's got round to implementing
> it yet.  There might still have been some unresolved objections, too.
> 
>             regards, tom lane

Perhaps I didn't make my point clear:  The only point of a password is to
protect something.  If that something is transmitted in the clear, then
from a hackers point of view there's almost no point in having a password.  
Of course this only applies to fetching data.. updates are a different
story.

So.  If working with sensitive data, shouldn't the data be encrypted as
well, not just the login sequence?  Is ssh a good way to go (assuming you 
have an account on the PG machine), and is what I proposed possible?

-Cedar