bugtraq - Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:06:37 +0200
From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@...denhain.de>
To: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@...ibel.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@....pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@...wman.net>,
	pgsql-hackers@...tgresql.org, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted


Am Mittwoch, den 20.04.2005, 16:23 -0500 schrieb Jim C. Nasby:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:03:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
...
> Simply put, MD5 is no longer strong enough for protecting secrets. It's
> just too easy to brute-force. SHA1 is ok for now, but it's days are
> numbered as well. I think it would be good to alter SHA1 (or something
> stronger) as an alternative to MD5, and I see no reason not to use a
> random salt instead of username.

I wonder where you want to store that random salt and how this would add
to the security.

-- 
Tino Wildenhain <tino@...denhain.de>


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