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From Mike Nolan
Subject Re: Data Encryption in PostgreSQL, and a Tutorial.
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Msg-id 200404130032.i3D0WOIn016341@gw.tssi.com
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In response to Re: Data Encryption in PostgreSQL, and a Tutorial.  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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> True, but the original discussion, I believe, was on storing user
> passwords etc... for which md5 is the preferred method...

I thought the original question was what to use for storing credit cards,
for which you want a decryptable method.  (A public/private key method
would be even better for credit card data IMHO, but I don't think pgcrypto
includes one.)
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Mike Nolan

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