Re: additional contrib test suites

On 2017-09-18 09:54:52 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 9/16/17 08:10, David Steele wrote:
> >>> (5) drop contrib/chkpass altogether, on the grounds that it's too badly
> >>> designed, and too obsolete crypto-wise, to be useful or supportable.
> >> crypt() uses the 7 lowest characters, which makes for 7.2e16 values,
> >> so I would be fine with (5), then (4) as the test suite is not
> >> portable.
> > I'd prefer 5, but can go with 4.
> > 
> > I get that users need to store their own passwords, but we have support
> > for SHA1 via the crypto module which seems by far the better choice.
> 
> I'm also tempted to just remove it.  It uses bad/outdated security
> practices and it's also not ideal as an example module.  Any objections?

Uhm. I'm not objecting, but I doubt people really noticed your question
in a thread about additional contrib test suites.

Greetings,

Andres Freund