Re: Data Encryption in PostgreSQL, and a Tutorial.

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Christopher Browne wrote:

> In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, "T. Relyea" <nospam@nospam.com> transmitted:
> > MySQL has encryption and decryption functions built in, doesn't Postgresql?
>
> But of course.
>
> See the "pgcrypto" contrib module in the source tree.
>
> It is not typically compiled into what gets distributed with the
> typical Linux/BSD distribution because of the library dependencies
> that it forces in, as well as because the legalities surrounding the
> distribution of cryptographic software vary from country to country,
> making it potentially legally unsafe to ubiquitously include it.

I thought md5() was a built-in nowadays...