> It takes about 32 hours to brute force all passwords from [a-zA-Z0-9]
> of up to 8 chars in length.

That would be a reason to limit the number of failed connection attempts
from a single source, then, rather than a reason to change the hash
function.

Hmmm, that would be a useful, easy (I think) security feature: add a GUC
for failed_logins_allowed.

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