Re: crypt function crash on postgresql 9.3.20 and 10

02.02.2018 17:55, David G. Johnston пишет:
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Pavan Teja <pavan(dot)postgresdba(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:pavan(dot)postgresdba(at)gmail(dot)com>>wrote:
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> On Feb 2, 2018 8:15 PM, "Mike Porter" <mike(at)udel(dot)edu <mailto:mike(at)udel(dot)edu>> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Михаил Манерко wrote:
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> If you send an asterisk in the crypt function, the function crashes.
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> example
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> i=# select crypt('123','*');
> ОШИБКА:  invalid salt
> i=#
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> The second argument is the salt, and you have not passed enough bits
> for the default hash type.
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> i=> select crypt( '123', 'aa' );
>      crypt
> ---------------
>  aamrgyQfDFSHw
> (1 row)
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>       Hi, 
>               Yeah Mike what u said is correct, the consistency of bits for generation of salt depends on
> algorithms like blow fish, md5 etc
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> ​You sure?  Don't have time to show otherwise but the docs suggest what you are doing is validating a store encrypted
> password as opposed to encrypting the provided one.
>
> David J.
> ​

function takes the text parameter
Should it fall from a 1-character long text?

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