On 9/16/17 08:10, David Steele wrote: >>> (5) drop contrib/chkpass altogether, on the grounds that it's too badly >>> designed, and too obsolete crypto-wise, to be useful or supportable. >> crypt() uses the 7 lowest characters, which makes for 7.2e16 values, >> so I would be fine with (5), then (4) as the test suite is not >> portable. > I'd prefer 5, but can go with 4. > > I get that users need to store their own passwords, but we have support > for SHA1 via the crypto module which seems by far the better choice.
I'm also tempted to just remove it. It uses bad/outdated security practices and it's also not ideal as an example module. Any objections? -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
