From: Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej.groups@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SHA-1 vs MD5
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:31:39 +1300
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<20070307201731.GF19042@phlogiston.dyndns.org>
On 3/8/07, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.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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