Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks,Re: Proposal: Support custom authentication methods using hooks

>> I still don't understand why using plaintex password authentication
>> over SSL connection is considered insecure. Actually we have been
>> stating opposite in the manual:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/auth-password.html
>>
>> "If the connection is protected by SSL encryption then password can be
>> used safely, though."
> 
> If you aren't doing client verification (i.e., cert in pg_hba) and are
> not doing verify-full on the client side then a man-in-the-middle
> attack on TLS is trivial, and the plaintext password will be
> sniffable.

So the plaintext password is safe if used with hostssl + verify-full
(server side) and sslmode = verify-full (client side), right?

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Tatsuo Ishii
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