JEjedisct1·Nov 7, 2023
pgsodium is also a very good option: https://github.com/michelp/pgsodium
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Modern cryptography for PostgreSQL using libsodium.
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3 sourcesI’ve never seen pg_enquo before but from first skim it looks excellent. Since it’s built with Rust it should be able to run on RDS (in theory, now that AWS supports pl/Rust).
Also worth checking out this excellent extension which is a wrapper around libsodium:
https://github.com/michelp/pgsodium
We use it at Supabase to provide our in-database “Vault”:
https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-vault
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