in reply to Re^2: Integrating Password encryption into DBIx::UserDB
in thread Integrating Password encryption into DBIx::UserDB

Yep, that's it. You can use the sha256_hex or sha256_base64 methods to encode the hash in a format that's easily storeable in the database.


There are ten types of people: those that understand binary and those that don't.

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Re^4: Integrating Password encryption into DBIx::UserDB
by hesco (Deacon) on Feb 01, 2006 at 13:10 UTC
    For the sake of my alter table query, how many characters do these digests turn out to be? Will a varchar(255) handle the result? Or do I need a text field? -- Hugh