Svenne Krap wrote:
>
> If I have a simple table now
>
> ID serial
> Username varchar
> Password varchar
>
> I currently save only md5(id || username || 'password')* into
> password, if I had access to sha1 (for example) i would add another
> password column so, having for example
>
> ID serial
> Username varchar
> Password_md5 varchar
> Password_sha1 varchar
>
> No matter how you see it, I get more bits of hash to check against.
>
Really? Why stop at two, then? How many hash functions is enough?
cheers
andrew