MD5 encryption, Was: Multilingual database

Say Dani,

Do you know where I can find the specs of MD5, like it is implemented in pgsql?
I've been doing google searches on MD5 a week ago or so, but didn't
come up with any explanation on how to program MD5 encryption. I
didn't even find *the* MD5, but all kinds of derivated encryption
techiques--without explanations.

Thanks,

Marc

At 5:02 PM +0200 5/14/03, Dani Oderbolz wrote:
>M. Bastin wrote:
>
>>At 6:11 PM +0800 5/14/03, Terence Ng wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you very much for your patience. May I have one
>>>more question?
>>>May I put the login and password of my customers in
>>>the same table containing my customers name and
>>>address?
>>
>>
>>It is a convenient thing to do, but it's not very safe unless you
>>somehow store this information encrypted, or at least, scrambled.
>
>If you use a Hash Functions such as MD5 to store it,
>I would say you are pretty save.
>
>The check you do in pseudo-code:
>
>If MD5(supplied_password) = = password_in_database Then
> Password Ok
>Else
> Password bad
>
>Cheers,
>Dani