On 4/6/06, AKHILESH GUPTA <akhilesh.davim@gmail.com> wrote:
> dear all,
> i want to encrypt and decrypt one of the fields in my table (i.e-password
> field)
> i have searched and with the help of pgcrypto package, using function
> "crypt", i am able to encrypt my data,
> but there is nothing which i found to decrypt that same data,
> plz anybody give me the function to decrypt that encrypted value.....
The crypt function can't be decrypted (whether it's in postgresql or
anywhere else).
Crypt is meant to be used for passwords and such that you don't need
to reverse (you only compare against).
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