Re: crypt and MD5 - still not wanted - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> If I recall the prior discussion, MD5 is OK, crypt is still risky,
> because MD5 is not an encryption algorithm so it doesn't fall under
> the US export laws.
> 
> I believe Vince V. is working on improving the password challenge
> code to use MD5, btw.
Not only passwords, but standard SQL functions a my drean is aggregate
function md5count() too. Cool --- that is  MD5 OK.

            Karel