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Re: Rejecting weak passwords

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, mlortiz <mlortiz@uci.cu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-09-28T15:06:15Z
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Actually there's a much bigger problem with asking the backend to reject
weak passwords: what ya gonna do with a pre-MD5'd string?  Which is
exactly what the backend is going to always get, in a security-conscious
environment.

			regards, tom lane