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Old 04-15-2008, 11:42 PM
Alvaro Herrera
 
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Default Re: [GENERAL] SHA1 on postgres 8.3

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> I also realize that SHA1 is not a great solution these days either,
> but I'd at least like to see a discussion on moving Postgres to
> somewhere between "only has md5()" and "all pg_crypto functions inside
> core", even if it only means a handful of SHA functions. Moving this
> over to -hackers.
>
> In summary: what would objections be to my writing a sha1() patch?


Isn't sha1 considered broken for some uses anyway? Perhaps if you're
going to do that it would make sense to move the whole pgcrypto/sha2.c
stuff to core, I think.

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