Commit 98bb697f authored by Magnus Hagander's avatar Magnus Hagander

pgcrypto doc updates

Marko Kreen
parent c7d7c15b
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<sect1 id="pgcrypto">
<title>pgcrypto</title>
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<para>
Computes a binary hash of the given <parameter>data</>.
<parameter>type</> is the algorithm to use.
Standard algorithms are <literal>md5</literal> and
<literal>sha1</literal>. If <filename>pgcrypto</> was built with
Standard algorithms are <literal>md5</literal>, <literal>sha1</literal>,
<literal>sha224</literal>, <literal>sha256</literal>,
<literal>sha384</literal> and <literal>sha512</literal>.
If <filename>pgcrypto</> was built with
OpenSSL, more algorithms are available, as detailed in
<xref linkend="pgcrypto-with-without-openssl">.
</para>
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<title>PGP encryption functions</title>
<para>
The functions here implement the encryption part of the OpenPGP (RFC 2440)
The functions here implement the encryption part of the OpenPGP (RFC 4880)
standard. Supported are both symmetric-key and public-key encryption.
</para>
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<para>
Which compression algorithm to use. Only available if
<filename>pgcrypto</> was built with zlib.
<productname>PostgreSQL<productname/> was built with zlib.
</para>
<programlisting>
Values:
......@@ -689,7 +691,7 @@
<para>
Whether to convert <literal>\n</literal> into <literal>\r\n</literal> when
encrypting and <literal>\r\n</literal> to <literal>\n</literal> when
decrypting. RFC 2440 specifies that text data should be stored using
decrypting. RFC 4880 specifies that text data should be stored using
<literal>\r\n</literal> line-feeds. Use this to get fully RFC-compliant
behavior.
</para>
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<para>
Do not protect data with SHA-1. The only good reason to use this
option is to achieve compatibility with ancient PGP products, predating
the addition of SHA-1 protected packets to RFC 2440.
the addition of SHA-1 protected packets to RFC 4880.
Recent gnupg.org and pgp.com software supports it fine.
</para>
<programlisting>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2440.txt"></ulink></para>
<para><ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4880.txt"></ulink></para>
<para>OpenPGP message format.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.imc.org/draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis"></ulink>
</para>
<para>New version of RFC 2440.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt"></ulink></para>
<para>The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.</para>
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