Re: pgcrypto: PGP signatures

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgcrypto: PGP signatures
Date: 2014-09-03 19:43:18
Message-ID: 54076F56.4060000@joh.to
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On 2014-09-03 9:36 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I wanted to start simple so I have a file which is signed, but not
> encrypted. I can't figure out what to do with it. All of the functions
> seem to require that it also be encrypted. I tried providing an empty
> password for pgp_sym_signatures but it didn't work.

Right. This patch only adds support for signing data when encrypting it
at the same time. There's no support for detached signatures, nor is
there support for anything other than signatures of encrypted data. I
should have been more clear on that in my initial email. :-(

.marko

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