I noticed that ramani in faq184-1262 uses checksums to store his password. What is the formula Foxpro uses to create a checksum ( SYS(2007)) ? If it is a set formula it would seem to me that this is a poor choice being that anyone could decode the passwords.
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Yes, the FoxPro checksum is a well defined algorithm (available many places on the net, or if required, I'll try and dig it up in FP code), however it's not reversible - so it works for a simple password scheme. However since it can only return a value from 0 -> 65535, multiple "passwords" can map to a single value.
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