You can create MD5 or SHA-1 digests with java.security.MessageDigest. They would
be stored as text
On Dec 1, 2003, at 4:01 PM, Oleg Lebedev wrote:
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Can Postgres JDBC driver encrypt a password before sending and inserting
it into the password column?
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:32 PM To: Oleg Lebedev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Storing passwords
Oleg Lebedev writes:
My application needs to store user names and passwords in the database
via JDBC connection. What is the right way to do this?
One table, one column for the name, one column for the password.
What should be the database type of the password column?
text or bytea, depending on how you encrypt it.
How do I encrypt the password before sending it to the database?
Check out contrib/pgcrypto.
What other database settings need to be enabled for this to work?
None.
-- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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