[patch 0/3] last large update to pgcrypto
От | Marko Kreen |
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Тема | [patch 0/3] last large update to pgcrypto |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 20050715200402.400476000@grue обсуждение исходный текст |
Список | pgsql-patches |
Those 3 patches hopefully end my pgcrypto patch-bombing. (Well, at least I am offline next couple weeks...) 1. Small fixes 2. Fortuna fixes 3. New README There are 3 important points about new readme: * It is formatted for use by asciidoc. To be able to generate html from it. As I consider the text version to be main target, I tried to as few formatting cruft as possible. Here are both versions online: http://grue.l-t.ee/~marko/src/pgcrypto/README.html http://grue.l-t.ee/~marko/src/pgcrypto/README.txt * I've seen people suggest to use MD5 for passwords. Now there is special section which compares crypt algorithms to md5 and sha1. * I announce the removal of (digest/cipher/hmac)_exists functions in 8.2. Reason for it is that they are useless: - The informational question can be answered by calling the main function and looking for error. - They are useless for user programs, as you cannot replace one algorithm with another on the run - missing algorithm will be always hard error. - The question 'does it exists' even should not be asked, user should rather use algorithms that are _always_ there. The situation would be different for functions that would return a _list_ of supported algorithms. But I doubt even the usefulness of such functions. -- marko
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