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Re: Data Encryption in PostgreSQL, and a Tutorial.

Mike Nolan <nolan@gw.tssi.com>

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From: Mike Nolan <nolan@gw.tssi.com>
To: scott.marlowe@ihs.com (scott.marlowe)
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane), cbbrowne@acm.org (Christopher Browne), pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-13T00:32:23Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> True, but the original discussion, I believe, was on storing user 
> passwords etc... for which md5 is the preferred method...

I thought the original question was what to use for storing credit cards,
for which you want a decryptable method.  (A public/private key method
would be even better for credit card data IMHO, but I don't think pgcrypto
includes one.)
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Mike Nolan