From: John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>
To: Eugenio Flores <eflores767003@yahoo.com.mx>
Cc: Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej.groups@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How to store a password encripted in a user defined table
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:25:28 -0500
Message-ID: <95880380-1F04-44B5-9353-BAB84955748E@pgedit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <675205.64473.qm@web55615.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
References: <675205.64473.qm@web55615.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
MD5 is built-in to PostgreSQL. It is what PostgreSQL itself uses to
hash passwords. For example:
select md5('this is my password');
md5
----------------------------------
210d53992dff432ec1b1a9698af9da16
(1 row)
On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Eugenio Flores wrote:
> Thanks Andrej. But how can I use such algoritms in postgresql? arey
> they defined in a function that I can call?
>
> Or, do I have to code one of those algorithm to use it in my
> application?
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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