Am Mittwoch, den 20.04.2005, 16:23 -0500 schrieb Jim C. Nasby: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:03:18PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: ... > Simply put, MD5 is no longer strong enough for protecting secrets. It's > just too easy to brute-force. SHA1 is ok for now, but it's days are > numbered as well. I think it would be good to alter SHA1 (or something > stronger) as an alternative to MD5, and I see no reason not to use a > random salt instead of username.
I wonder where you want to store that random salt and how this would add to the security. -- Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
