Basic Encryption 2

[overyde]

Hi,
I'm looking for some ideas on basic encryption. Nothing too hardcore. I was thinking along the lines of MD5 encryption. Is this a good one to use, are there better ones for use on a windows machine? How do I utilise it effectively.

 

[youradds]

How about;

$crypted = crypt($var, "MM"

That will use MM encryption (obviously).

Cheers

Andy

 

[vbkris]

md5 is the best even banking companies depend on it...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[welshtroll]

Just note that using the crypt function is a one way algorithm, so it's fine if you never wish to decypt a previously encrypted string.

'... and then it wouldn't compile?'

 

[skiflyer]

Actually that's not true. One way encryption is often for useful.

Say it's for passwords...

then someone submits a password, you encrypt it and store it.

Next time they submit the password, you encrypt and compare it to the stored encrypted version. If the encryptions match, it was the same password, if the encryptions do not match, it wasn't the same password. You have all the information you need... it's a simple true false. And this way if someone snags your password database, they still can't get in to your system so you have some extra security.

-Rob