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		okket on Nov 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Securing PostgreSQL [pdf] That said, pgcrypto is still useful, you can compute hashes or generate UUIDs with it.

dom0 on Nov 3, 2016 [–]

The point was that you probably shouldn't use it for data encryption in the DB and think the server doesn't have the keys.

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