Re: SHA-1 vs MD5

From: "Chad Wagner" <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha" <ezequias(dot)rocha(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SHA-1 vs MD5
Date: 2007-03-07 21:44:39
Message-ID: 81961ff50703071344i28d9ea6cr4902fed404b38602@mail.gmail.com
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On 3/7/07, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <ezequias(dot)rocha(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I know that there is a md5 internal function on postgresql, but I noticed
> that it isn't the more secure today. I would like to know if there is a
> SHA-1 function implemented yet of, if not, if the team has plan to introduce
> it on PostgreSQL.

You are probably looking for the pgcrypto contribution, look in the contrib
directory for it.

test=# select encode(digest('blahblah', 'sha256'), 'hex');
encode
------------------------------------------------------------------
40b1bbb5445fc021a312315379f4633284851e14d1db83fb0730f58872d6033b
(1 row)

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Chad
http://www.postgresqlforums.com/

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