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From: Richard Hector <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: password storage docs
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:35:56 +1200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Hi,

Sending this as requested by xocolatl on #postgresql (irc).

On discovering that (md5) password hashes are stored in postgres in a
manner similar to this:

'md5' || md5('the most secret password' || 'username')

i.e. without the use of a random salt, it was suggested I should look
into the scram alternative.

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.

Thanks,

Richard

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