| From: | "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SHA-1 vs MD5 |
| Date: | 2007-03-07 20:31:39 |
| Message-ID: | b35603930703071231s39f262f0r780a771388376da6@mail.gmail.com |
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On 3/8/07, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:
> What is the problem you're trying to solve? Md5 is probably good
> enough for many cases, but for long-term use, you're right that sha-1
> is what you need. Actually, you need sha-256, quite frankly.
Looking at his last mail he's after a password hash.
To the OP:
Currently there's no support in pg for sha algorithms, but you
could always implement those in your application and store
the hash in pg that way.
Cheers,
Andrej
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