Re: [GENERAL] SHA1 on postgres 8.3

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160

> In MySQL I have a function SHA1, which is critical for storing and
> authenticating passwords.

It sure would be nice to have this in core. Yeah, there's pgcrypto,
but it's a bit overkill for people who simply want to do a SHA1,
especially when they see we already have a md5(). I also realize that
SHA1 is not a great solution these days either, but I'd at least like
to see a discussion on moving Postgres to somewhere between
"only has md5()" and "all pg_crypto functions inside core", even if
it only means a handful of SHA functions. Moving this over to -hackers.

In summary: what would objections be to my writing a sha1() patch?

- --
Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200801201218
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iD8DBQFHk4NIvJuQZxSWSsgRA83ZAJ0SIk36sYvLF30q7hog2sBaQU1+LACeOv15
WkDwrzgzHyrwmNFP85plbBA=
=6P4y
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----