Re: SCRAM salt length

On 16 August 2017 at 14:10, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The SCRAM salt length is currently set as
>
> /* length of salt when generating new verifiers */
> #define SCRAM_DEFAULT_SALT_LEN     12
>
> without further comment.
>
> I suspect that this length was chosen based on the example in RFC 5802
> (SCRAM-SHA-1) section 5.  But the analogous example in RFC 7677
> (SCRAM-SHA-256) section 3 uses a length of 16.  Should we use that instead?

16 preferred, IMHO

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