Question - How to use a different hashing algorithm?

[9mido]

The default pgcrypto extension is PGP (public key/privacy key) output looks like:

\xc30d0407030286e239c36fe48d126dd24401086aecb7805d0e52fc77c32bc341f566153ee9e291d11f8972a6fd63a44282b5a7df09fad63d0bbd1eb1374980a9e10e13d2987a1289e193a749f496aec0195e1eb5e3

Not sure if this is the most secure by default. If improved algorithms are found in the future, how would you configure them?

If not using PGP and instead a one way hash, why not use other options like bcrypt are argon2, pbkdf2, scrypt, etc. instead of SHA.

Perhaps an improvement to django-pgcrypto-fields would be to configure what types of algorithms you would want to use? Or is there already a way to configure this with postgres or something?

[peterfarrell]

This is a duplicated of #135 which had a "help wanted" label on to improve this library.

[9mido]

Thanks did not see that other one.

[peterfarrell]

@9mido PRs welcome on #135