Posted by Marcus on 06/26/06 18:24

Hello,

I have read several online tutorials advocating storing a sha1() hashed
password in a column of type BLOB. As far as I can tell, sha1() always
returns a string of 40 characters, regardless of the size of the
original input. Is there any reason I can't store this as type CHAR? I
am running MySQL 4.1.x. Thanks in advance.

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