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Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
  • To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
  • Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
  • Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:01:58 -0300
  • Message-id: <20051220020158(dot)GA24150(at)surnet(dot)cl>

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> By the way,
> 
> I've already implemented this in phpPgAdmin trivially using the md5() 
> function.  I can't be bothered using a C library function :D

IIRC the whole point of this exercise was to avoid passing the password
to the server in the first place.  Unless you are talking about a PHP
md5() password of course ...

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