> 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.) -- Mike Nolan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly