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Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Conway
1abf76e82c "Annual" pgcrypto update from Marko Kreen:
Few cleanups and couple of new things:

 - add SHA2 algorithm to older OpenSSL
 - add BIGNUM math to have public-key cryptography work on non-OpenSSL
   build.
 - gen_random_bytes() function

The status of SHA2 algoritms and public-key encryption can now be
changed to 'always available.'

That makes pgcrypto functionally complete and unless there will be new
editions of AES, SHA2 or OpenPGP standards, there is no major changes
planned.
2006-07-13 04:15:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1dc3498251 Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87688ddf87 The large one adds support for RSA keys and reorganizes
the pubkey functions a bit.  The actual RSA-specific code
there is tiny, most of the patch consists of reorg of the
pubkey code, as lots of it was written as elgamal-only.

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The SHLIB section was copy-pasted from somewhere and contains
several unnecessary libs.  This cleans it up a bit.

 -lcrypt
   we don't use system crypt()

 -lssl, -lssleay32
   no SSL here

 -lz in win32 section
   already added on previous line

 -ldes
   The chance anybody has it is pretty low.
   And the chance pgcrypto works with it is even lower.

Also trim the win32 section.

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It is already disabled in Makefile, remove code too.

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I was bit hasty making the random exponent 'k' a prime.  Further researh
shows that Elgamal encryption has no specific needs in respect to k,
any random number is fine.

It is bit different for signing, there it needs to be 'relatively prime'
to p - 1,  that means GCD(k, p-1) == 1, which is also a lot lighter than
full primality.  As we don't do signing, this can be ignored.

This brings major speedup to Elgamal encryption.

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o  pgp_mpi_free: Accept NULLs
o  pgp_mpi_cksum: result should be 16bit
o  Remove function name from error messages - to be similar to other
   SQL functions, and it does not match anyway the called function
o  remove couple junk lines

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o  Support for RSA encryption
o  Big reorg to better separate generic and algorithm-specific code.
o  Regression tests for RSA.

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o  Tom stuck a CVS id into file.  I doubt the usefulness of it,
   but if it needs to be in the file then rather at the end.
   Also tag it as comment for asciidoc.
o  Mention bytea vs. text difference
o  Couple clarifications

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There is a choice whether to update it with pgp functions or
remove it.  I decided to remove it, updating is pointless.

I've tried to keep the core of pgcrypto relatively independent
from main PostgreSQL, to make it easy to use externally if needed,
and that is good.  Eg. that made development of PGP functions much
nicer.

But I have no plans to release it as generic library, so keeping such
doc
up-to-date is waste of time.  If anyone is interested in using it in
other products, he can probably bother to read the source too.

Commented source is another thing - I'll try to make another pass
over code to see if there is anything non-obvious that would need
more comments.

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Marko Kreen
2005-08-13 02:06:21 +00:00
Neil Conway
b160d6b9dc pgcrypto update:
* Use error codes instead of -1
* px_strerror for new error codes
* calling convention change for px_gen_salt - return error code
* use px_strerror in pgcrypto.c

Marko Kreen
2005-03-21 05:19:55 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
55b113257c make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ... 2003-11-29 22:41:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea08e6cd55 New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed,
initdb/regression tests pass.
2001-11-05 17:46:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6783b2372e Another pgindent run. Fixes enum indenting, and improves #endif
spacing.  Also adds space for one-line comments.
2001-10-28 06:26:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b81844b173 pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regression
tests pass.
2001-10-25 05:50:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab56022864 Big thanks to Solar Designer who pointed out a bug in bcrypt
salt generation code.  He also urged using better random source
and making possible to choose using bcrypt and xdes rounds more
easily.  So, here's patch:

* For all salt generation, use Solar Designer's own code.  This
  is mostly due fact that his code is more fit for get_random_bytes()
  style interface.
* New function: gen_salt(type, rounds).  This lets specify iteration
  count for algorithm.
* random.c: px_get_random_bytes() function.
  Supported randomness soure: /dev/urandom, OpenSSL PRNG, libc random()
  Default: /dev/urandom.
* Draft description of C API for pgcrypto functions.

New files: API, crypt-gensalt.c, random.c

Marko Kreen
2001-09-23 04:12:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
df24cb73f6 Add missing pgcrypto file. 2001-08-21 01:32:01 +00:00