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| author | Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> | 2008-01-17 11:06:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> | 2008-01-17 11:06:28 +0000 |
| commit | 98bb697f332fdfaccac6d1927a7a858e17f9ab8f (patch) | |
| tree | 9118da784ff5b01ad7f652c719e2ffcafe1c89f4 | |
| parent | c7d7c15bb104d3ad2b7388a63e392ec8fbe2258b (diff) | |
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pgcrypto doc updates
Marko Kreen
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml | 24 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml index 892dfdca2b6..5c5e7a80f84 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml,v 1.4 2008/01/05 13:17:00 petere Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml,v 1.5 2008/01/17 11:06:28 mha Exp $ --> <sect1 id="pgcrypto"> <title>pgcrypto</title> @@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ <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> @@ -390,7 +392,7 @@ <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> @@ -657,7 +659,7 @@ <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> @@ -706,7 +708,7 @@ <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> @@ -1172,16 +1174,10 @@ <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> </listitem> |