| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Data Encryption in PostgreSQL, and a Tutorial. |
| Date: | 2004-04-12 15:20:43 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0404120920310.14195-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Christopher Browne wrote:
> In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, "T. Relyea" <nospam(at)nospam(dot)com> transmitted:
> > MySQL has encryption and decryption functions built in, doesn't Postgresql?
>
> But of course.
>
> See the "pgcrypto" contrib module in the source tree.
>
> It is not typically compiled into what gets distributed with the
> typical Linux/BSD distribution because of the library dependencies
> that it forces in, as well as because the legalities surrounding the
> distribution of cryptographic software vary from country to country,
> making it potentially legally unsafe to ubiquitously include it.
I thought md5() was a built-in nowadays...
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