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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@8kdata.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about SCRAM implementation
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:42:04 -0400
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Tom, all,

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> ... which the user can't tell apart from having fat-fingered the password,
> I suppose?  Doesn't sound terribly friendly.  A report of a certificate
> mismatch is far more likely to lead people to realize there's a MITM.

We might be able to improve on that.

> So this seems more like a hack than like a feature we need so desperately
> as to push it into v10 post-freeze.

Channel binding certainly isn't a 'hack' and is something we should
support, but I agree that it doesn't need to go into v10.

Thanks!

Stephen

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