Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords

From: "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords
Date: 2001-06-15 23:44:23
Message-ID: 00c201c0f5f5$1b6af180$d7d310ac@jecw2k1
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> Well said. (I don't recall what HMAC stands for; maybe others don't
also.)
>

HMAC stands for Hash based Message Authentication Code. Here's a link to the
paper which originally introduced it, for those who are interested:

http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/papers/kmd5.pdf

-- Joe

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