Re: PGSQL encryption functions

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 17:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Mark R. Dingee" <mark(dot)dingee(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> > md5 works, but I've been able to
> > brute-force crack it very quickly,
>
> Really? Where's your publication of this remarkable breakthrough?

I'd say you can't bruteforce md5, unless you're extremley lucky.
However, md5 is easily broken, you just need to know how to construct
the hashes.

One could switch to SHA for 'increaased' security.

Although I don't think he'd be having problems using MD5 as he described
it. I'd also lilke to see he's example of brute-force 'cracking' the MD5
digest.

Mike
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