On 04/10/2015 05:17 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
On Apr 9, 2015, at 8:51 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
What should we do about this?

I bet that there are at least 1000 covert channel attacks that are more 
practically exploitable than this.

Care to name some? This is certainly quite cumbersome to exploit, but it's doable.

We've talked a lot about covert channels and timing attacks on RLS, but this makes me more worried because you can attack passwords stored in pg_authid.

- Heikki



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