On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:42:40PM -0700, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Sep  6, 2017 at 04:19:52PM -0400, Stephen Cook wrote:
>     > Hello!
>     >
>     > Is there a way to decrypt data encrypted with the pgcrypto "encrypt"
>     > function, outside the database? Assuming that I know the key etc...
> 
>     Yes, I think so.  pgcrypto uses openssl and gpg internally, so using
>     those tools should work.
> 
> 
> I know that pgp_sym_encrypt and pgp_sym_decrypt interoperates well with
> "outside the database" gpg, although dealing with armoring and de-armoring as
> well as text mode or binary mode is a bit of a bother until you get used to 
> it.
> 
> But he seems to be asking about the "F.25.4. Raw Encryption Functions".  I
> wouldn't want to reassure him that it would be easy to make those work outside
> the database, without having seen it done.  But it should of course be 
> possible
> to make it work, even if that means rearranging the code of pgcrypto and
> compiling into something that is standalone.

Uh, it should be possible with openssl, but I have never tried it.

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