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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Richard Hector <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: password storage docs
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:46:54 +0900
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 01:35:56PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> I can't find information about the storage format for that at all -
> other than "... and supports storing passwords on the server in a
> cryptographically hashed form that is thought to be secure."
> 
> It would be nice to see more information on this.

The SCRAM verifiers stored conform to RFC 5803:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5803.
This is mentioned in the comments of auth-scram.c.  Do you think that
mentioning that in this paragraph of this doc would be useful?  We could
for example append "as defined in RFC 5803" in the last sentence.
--
Michael


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