On Jan 9, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Ron Aaron wrote:

> On Saturday 09 January 2010 18:21:00 D. Richard Hipp wrote:
>
>> There is a trade-off.
>>
>> You can store an cryptographic checksum of the password in the user
>> table.  ...
>> Or you can store the cleartext password in the user
>> table and send a cryptographic checksum of the password...
>
> There is another option: send a crypto checksum over the wire, and  
> store a
> different sum in the user table.  Then the server file does not have a
> cleartext password, nor is one sent on the wire.


I'm not familiar with that algorithm. Can you explain or provide a link?


D. Richard Hipp
d...@hwaci.com



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