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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords


From: Stephen Frost <sfrost () snowman net>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:05:29 -0400

* Bruno Wolff III (bruno () wolff to) wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 22:27:01 -0400,
  Stephen Frost <sfrost () snowman net> wrote:
SHA2 would also be nice.

I think the new hash functions are called SHA256 and SHA512.
For Postgres' purposes the recent weaknesses found in SHA1 and MD5
aren't a big deal.

Well, alright, SHA256 and SHA512.  It would be nice to have Postgres
support them.

        Stephen

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