Boguslaw Brandys wrote:

> Another idea is to use MD5 or SHA algorithm to encode password which
> in this
>
>situation could be very,very long as only short digest would be stored (or
>digest crypted with old crypt() function would be even better)
>This shouldn't be a problem for any programmer (not mention perfect ones
>from Firebird developer group ;-) ) to include MD5 algorithm to FB1.5 final
>

Version 2 will (I expect) have pluggable security - the current
mechanism and a variety of alternates. 1.5 is too close to release to
take on this problem

Regards

Ann