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Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4876: author of MD5 says it's seriously broken - hash collision resistance problems
From: Tom Lane <tgl () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us>
Date: 2009-06-25 16:03:30
Message-ID: 22999.1245945810 () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us
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"Meredith L. Patterson" <mlp@osogato.com> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> We might want to consider using a safer hash for the password storage at
>> some point, but from what I gather it's not really urgent for *that* use.
>>
> It would be a lot more urgent if we weren't salting, but IIRC we are.
I don't really see that there's any issue here at all. The point of the
hashing is to prevent a superuser (non-superusers can't look at the
stored hashvalue anyway) from recovering the user's actual password.
This is not for the purpose of protecting the database itself ---
superusers already have all the keys to the kingdom in that respect.
It's only meant to protect a user who's unwisely used the same password
for multiple services from having a database breakin mean that his other
services are compromised as well.
Being able to make up strings that hash to the same thing doesn't create
a vulnerability of this sort, AFAICS. You've found something that the
database would accept as being a valid password, but that doesn't mean
that it will work for other services.
regards, tom lane
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