Re: MySQL PASSWORD('x') function workalike

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:11:12PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> In MySQL, I can get a hash of a VARCHAR by using the PASSWORD('') call. I
> know for DB admin there is pg_passwd, but is there a function interface so
> that I can get password hashes of arbitrary strings in SQL? (Note that I
> mean crypto hashes like MD5 and hopefully compatible with the hashes used
> for pg_passwd).

You can check out my implementation I just released ;)

http://www.l-t.ee/marko/pgsql/pgcrypto-0.1.tar.gz

And you can check out -hackers mail I sent. btw its 20k not
11k as the previous mail said :)

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It exports 2 functions to SQL level:

digest(data::text, hash_name::text)
which returns hexadecimal coded hash over data by
specified algorithm. eg

> select digest('blah', 'sha1');
5bf1fd927dfb8679496a2e6cf00cbe50c1c87145

digest_exists(hash_name::text)::bool
which reports if particular hash type exists.

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marko