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From: "Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com>
To: "Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa" <joukim@comp.ufla.br>,
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Cc: "Bruno de Oliveira Schneider" <bruno@comp.ufla.br>
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Subject: Re: Cryptography - A dummy question
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 08:43:18 -0700
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> Hi,
> 
> Is there any cryptography in PostgreSQL network connections??? I would
> like to know if it is safe to query data like passwords on a PostgreSQL
> server, from several clients.
> 
> In other words: PostgreSQL network connections are secured agains
> sniffers?

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ssl-tcp.html
- and/or -
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?ssh-tunnels.html

HTH,

-- Joe