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It doesn't make any immediate difference to PostgreSQL, but might as well follow the standard, since one exists. (I looked at RFC 5803 earlier, but didn't fully understand it back then.) The new format uses Base64 instead of hex to encode StoredKey and ServerKey, which makes the verifiers slightly smaller. Using the same encoding for the salt and the keys also means that you only need one encoder/decoder instead of two. Although we have code in the backend to do both, we are talking about teaching libpq how to create SCRAM verifiers for PQencodePassword(), and libpq doesn't currently have any code for hex encoding. Bump catversion, because this renders any existing SCRAM verifiers in pg_authid invalid. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/351ba574-85ea-d9b8-9689-8c928dd0955d@iki.fi
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