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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruno Wolff III)
Fri Apr 22 13:56:14 2005
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:27:16 -0500
From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>,
pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 22:27:01 -0400,
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
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> SHA2 would also be nice.
I think the new hash functions are called SHA256 and SHA512.
For Postgres' purposes the recent weaknesses found in SHA1 and MD5
aren't a big deal.