Month: January 2007

I’ve created a patch for MySQL 5.0.33 to provide a function SHA2().Download it here: http://www.karwin.com/sha2.patch.gz It really just calls out to the OpenSSL library for the digest functions. So you have to build MySQL from source with OpenSSL support enabled. You can use the function in SQL syntax like: SELECT SHA2(‘message’, 256); The second argument…