On ons, 2011-08-31 at 13:12 -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> Hmm, this thread seems to have petered out without a conclusion. Just
> wanted to comment that there _are_ non-password storage uses for these
> digests: I use them in a context of storing large files in a bytea
> column, as a means to doing data deduplication, and avoiding pushing
> files from clients to server and back.
But I suppose you don't need the hash function in the database system
for that.
