Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:13:39 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: kthusi@yahoo.com, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Encryption functions
Message-Id: <20060518091339.249bf054.darcy@druid.net>
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On Thu, 18 May 2006 06:44:55 -0600
Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:21:19AM -0700, Thusitha Kodikara wrote:
> > Are there any encryption functions that can be used in
> > SQL inserts and selects directly?  For example like
> > "select encryptin_function('test_to_be_encrypted'), ........"
> 
> See the contrib/pgcrypto module.  It has functions like digest()
> for making SHA1, MD5, and other digests; hmac() for making Hashed
> Message Authentication Codes; and encrypt()/encrypt_iv() and
> decrypt()/decrypt_iv() for doing encryption and decryption.  Since
> 8.1 pgcrypto also has functions for doing OpenPGP symmetric and
> public-key encryption.

If your requirements are simpler check out the genpass module.  It is a
DES3 encrypted type.  You can do things like "SELECT * FROM table WHERE
passw = 'hello'" and it will find passwords that are entered as 'hello'
even though they are stored encrypted.  Example:

darcy=# select 'hello'::chkpass;
    chkpass
----------------
 :v1L3NdWy0OHlQ
(1 row)

darcy=# select ':v1L3NdWy0OHlQ'::chkpass = 'hello';
 ?column?
----------
 t
(1 row)

darcy=# select ':v1L3NdWy0OHlQ'::chkpass = 'nothello';
 ?column?
----------
 f
(1 row)

Note that the leading colon says that the string is already encrypted.
This allows dump and restore to work correctly.

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