From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: zenpolcorporation@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to interpret the salt sent in the AuthenticationMD5Password message from the server.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:22:52 -0400
Message-ID: <3307.1600284172@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160027570302.24369.6463926392340126344@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <160027570302.24369.6463926392340126344@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> In short, what is the format of the salt sent to the server?
I think you might have a conceptual error here. The salt is sent
from the server to you, not the other way around. It's just four
random bytes in the AuthenticationMD5Password message, which I'm
pretty sure you should incorporate verbatim in your MD5 input.
The bytes are just binary data, they're not ASCII or encoded
in some way.
regards, tom lane
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