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Pgsodium 2.0.0: Modern cryptography for PostgreSQL
- kiwicopple 5y agoFrom Mike's comments on Reddit[0] pgsodium 2.0.0 is a postgres extension that uses the libsodium library to provide high-performance, modern cryptography support for PostgreSQL 10+. 2.0.0 includes a ton of new feature and a few bug-fixes: * Support for XChaCha20-SIV[2] deterministic nonce-free encryption * Support for SignCryption[3] Sign & Encrypt identity verification * Key id support for HMACSHA 512/256, generichash, and shorthash * Support for low level XChaCha20 streaming[4] * More tests, docs, and small bug fixes in argument parsing * In-memory key now protected with sodium_malloc[5] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/s0b6o2/pgsodium_200_modern_cryptography_for_postgresql/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PostgreSQL/comments/s0b6o2/pgsodium... [1] https://doc.libsodium.org/ https://doc.libsodium.org/ [2] https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-xchacha20-siv https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-xchacha20-siv [3] https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-signcryption https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium-signcryption [4] https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/advanced/stream_ciphers/xchacha20 https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/advanced/stream_ciphers/xch... [5] https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/memory_management https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/memory_management