From: Tim Ellis <Tim.Ellis@gamet.com>
To: Stefan Fiel <fstefan@cable.vol.at>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: password encryption
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:36:38 -0400
Message-ID: <20020821173638.4428eb90.Tim.Ellis@gamet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020820115452.03ed0a28@mail.cable.vol.at>
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020820115452.03ed0a28@mail.cable.vol.at>
> i like to store passwords for a webapplication in my postgre database.
>
> now i'm searching for a way to encrypt the passwords, something like the
> function password() for mysql.
I always run my passwords through md5sum(), which is an open source
implementation, and thus seems to've been written in every language out
there.
--
Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect
Gamet, Inc.
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