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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: samay sharma <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:39:24 -0500
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Jeff Davis <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 2022-02-24 at 20:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... and, since we can't readily enforce that the client only sends
>> those cleartext passwords over suitably-encrypted connections, this
>> could easily be a net negative for security.  Not sure that I think
>> it's a good idea.

> I don't understand your point. Can't you just use "hostssl" rather than
> "host"?

My point is that sending cleartext passwords over the wire is an
insecure-by-definition protocol that we shouldn't be encouraging
more use of.

			regards, tom lane

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