Re: PostgreSQL 7.3.3 with pgcrypto on FreeBSD 5.1

> >> Perhaps the problem is that Marko didn't fix the crypt() code in
> >> the same way?
>
> > Ah, I think that's _very_ likely the case here...  -sc
>
> I updated to openssl 0.9.7b on my HPUX machine, and still do not see any
> failure in
>
> regression=# SELECT crypt('lalalal',gen_salt('md5'));
>                crypt
> ------------------------------------
>  $1$.yzzlyzz$W8vpUQ3Nonx20vchlBQye/
> (1 row)
>
> So it seems that OpenSSL version is not the issue --- or at least not
> the whole story.  Maybe there is some platform-dependency here too.

Possible, but I'm a skeptical of that.  FreeBSD's openssl code
_should_ be stock (unless someone bungled the import) with the
exception of not including Win32 or other non-FreeBSD related bits.
crypt() works when salted with only 2 chars, however it shouldn't core
with more than that...  I ran this test case through gdb a few times
and couldn't come up with anything worth while, though I'm pretty sure
that's because the object files were optimized > -O and garbled.

-sc

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Sean Chittenden