Re: Two way encription in PG??? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Two way encription in PG???
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Msg-id 3AA33416.1020701@dynworks.com
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In response to Re: Two way encription in PG???  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Boulat Khakimov writes:
>
>> How do I encrypt/decrypt something in PG?
>
>
> Download 7.1 and use the contrib/pgcrypto module.
>
I looked at the pgcrypto README file and it seems that it only makes
one-way hashes. None of the functions had a key argument of any kind.
The encode/decode functions are for bin/ascii encoding/deconding, not
cryptographic. Any more info about this?

Thnaks,
   Jeff Davis


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