Re: Two way encryption in PG???

From: clayton cottingham <drfrog(at)smartt(dot)com>
To: Boulat Khakimov <boulat(at)inet-interactif(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two way encryption in PG???
Date: 2001-03-05 16:40:53
Message-ID: 3AA3C195.3B525BB@smartt.com
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Boulat Khakimov wrote:
>
> David Olbersen wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Boulat Khakimov wrote:
> >
> > ->How do I encrypt/decrypt something in PG?
> >
> > Perhaps it'd be better to one-way encrypt something? Granted I don't know the
> > details of your project, but allowing a way to "decrypt" something is rather
> > insecure.
> >
> > -- Dave
>
> Now, one way CC encryption doesnt really make any sense, does it :)
>
> Two-way encryption algorithms like blowfish are very hard to break, too
> bad they are
> not build in to PG.
>

this could be easily done with
PL/perl couldnt it?

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