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

from [Mike Fratto] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Postgres: pg_hba.conf, md5, pg_shadow, encrypted passwords
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:25:23 -0400 
 

I thought the idea of the salt was to aid in expanding the 
keyspace. Even though the salt is known (in traditional Unix 
passwd/shadow/master.passwd databases, 


I am pretty sure the intent the salt is to make pre-computation of a
dictionaries infeasable due to storage requirements. It doesn't really add
to the keyspace because the salt is known and doesn't have to be guessed.
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