Re: MD5

Use the md5 function:

select md5('welcome');
md5
----------------------------------
40be4e59b9a2a2b5dffb918c0e86b3d7
(1 row)

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Jamie Deppeler wrote:
> Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Am Freitag, den 17.12.2004, 09:41 +1100 schrieb Jamie Deppeler:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Well basically i want to store and hashed value that will never be
> changed just compaired too hashed values
>
> also when i try to encrpyt a field i get this error
> encypt(text,"unknown","unknown")
>
>
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