Encrypting

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#1Herb Blacker
herbblacker@isgenesis.com

I've looked thru the docs and haven't found anything on data encryption.

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but can someone tell me where I
can
get hold of a method of encrypting the data in a field (i.e. a password
field)?

If there's something already generated, I would apppreciate not
having to build my own.
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#2Stephan Szabo
sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com
In reply to: Herb Blacker (#1)
Re: Encrypting

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Herb Blacker wrote:

I've looked thru the docs and haven't found anything on data encryption.

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but can someone tell me where I
can
get hold of a method of encrypting the data in a field (i.e. a password
field)?

If there's something already generated, I would apppreciate not
having to build my own.

You might want to look at contrib/pgcrypto

#3Dan Langille
dan@langille.org
In reply to: Herb Blacker (#1)
Re: Encrypting

On 22 Mar 2002 at 16:43, Herb Blacker wrote:

I've looked thru the docs and haven't found anything on data encryption.

There is something in the contrib directory. For details on how I put
that into my database, see http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql-7.2.php
and look for the section titled "The Crypto". Also included is how I
added "Soundex/Fuzzy matching", also in the contrib section.

[yes, it's FreeBSD-centric, but the basic instructions should get you
going under any other OS]
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