Re: Encryption functions

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:21:19AM -0700, Thusitha Kodikara wrote:
> Are there any encryption functions that can be used in
> SQL inserts and selects directly?  For example like
> "select encryptin_function('test_to_be_encrypted'), ........"

See the contrib/pgcrypto module.  It has functions like digest()
for making SHA1, MD5, and other digests; hmac() for making Hashed
Message Authentication Codes; and encrypt()/encrypt_iv() and
decrypt()/decrypt_iv() for doing encryption and decryption.  Since
8.1 pgcrypto also has functions for doing OpenPGP symmetric and
public-key encryption.

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Michael Fuhr