provide better security than the existing MD5-based password authentication
method.</p>
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<a name="features"></a><h2>More About the Features</h2>
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For explanations of the above features and others, please see the following
The Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) defined in [RFC5802](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5802) defines a protocol to improve upon the secure storage and transmission of passwords by providing a framework for strong password negotiation. PostgreSQL 10 introduces the SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication method, defined in [RFC7677](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7677), to provide better security than the existing MD5-based password authentication method.
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