Re: MD5 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jamie Deppeler
Subject Re: MD5
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Msg-id 41C22083.4000506@doitonce.net.au
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In response to Re: MD5  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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Tino Wildenhain wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1103240237.5337.159.camel@Andrea.peacock.de" type="cite"><pre wrap="">Hi,

Am Freitag, den 17.12.2004, 09:41 +1100 schrieb Jamie Deppeler: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">Hi,

I was just wondering is it possible to encrypt a filed in the database 
with md5? i know it is possible to do it with DB users   </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
No. You cannot encrypt with md5 because you cant decrypt.
md5 is a hash function. But you can use it any time to
hash values you insert.

Regards
Tino


 </pre></blockquote> Well basically i want to store and hashed value that will never be changed just compaired too
hashedvalues<br /><br /> also when i try to encrpyt a field i get this error encypt(text,"unknown","unknown")<br /> 

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