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Re: use of the term "verifier" with SCRAM

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Date: 2019-10-10T07:08:37Z
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On 2019-08-14 10:41, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> RFC 5803 is titled "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema
>> for Storing Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM)
>> Secrets".  Following that, I think calling the contents of rolpassword a
>> "secret" or a "stored secret" would be better.

> But I agree that "secret", as used in RFC5803 is better.

Here is my proposed patch to adjust this.

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  1. Fix use of term "verifier"