Anyone has any idea how much this encryption method sucks up server load?
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Leon Mergen
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President of Operations
BlazeBox, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua J. Kugler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Leon Mergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: Password encryption
> Look in the manual about the ENCODE/DECODE functions.
>
> j----- k-----
>
> On Friday 08 June 2001 10:28, you wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have some questions about password encryption. I want to make some
sort
> > of encryption method that disables a human to read the password, but
does
> > allow my (php) script to convert the encoded password to a
human-readable
> > password, the member originally entered and the member enters in the
form
> > (if he or she has the password right) .
> >
> > In other words, I want a string to be encrypted and decrypted, if it's
> > possible in the query.
> >
> > An example:
> >
> > insert into table values (encrypt("secret"));
> > select decrypt(passfield) as pass from table;
> >
> > and here, pass will contain the value of "secret".
>
> --
> Joshua Kugler, Information Services Director
> Associated Students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-7601
>
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