On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > Like Joe and Stephen, I actually find it highly confusing that we call the > MD5 hash an "encrypted password". The term "password verifier" is fairly > common in the specifications of authentication mechanisms. I think we should > adopt it.
Speaking as someone who hasn't read the specifications I found "password verifier" surprising. I would have known what "password hash" was but I misread "verifier" to be something functional like a PAM plugin. I tend to agree we should just use terminology out of the specs though even if it's a little opaque, better one opaque piece of terminology than having to learn and translate between multiple terminologies. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
