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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: removal of md5 from example code
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:02:04 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 1/17/18 11:14, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The documentation at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html shows an example
> using md5 for password hashes. This is generally a bad practice and not
> relevant to the feature documented. 
> 
> I recommend removing the password column from this example or replacing the
> md5 hash with something more secure (a secure hash algorithm with a salt).

We don't have any other hash functions built in and exposed at the SQL
level.  (Maybe that is a problem.)  Do you have any other ideas how to
rewrite that example?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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