>>I am very new to the encrypt and decrypt data process and would like
to know how do I able to encrypt a string and store to MySQL and retrieve
the data and decrypt it at the later time.
Grab a copy of mcrypt (search http://freshmeat.net/ for it) and read
the docs for it -- its a good idea t
14, 2001 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: encrypt/decrypt question
Michael,
I just did something like this, and used the ENCODE/DECODE. Works well.
Basically you want to assign a "special key" for the encoding/decoding of
the
data you want to encode/decode. The column type should be either a BLO
If all you're looking for is a trivial hiding of the data, then I'd
suggest doing a rot13 on the string. I highly doubt there is a native
SQL function that does this, so you'll need to write your own function
in whatever interface you're using. Perl/PHP/whatever.
Rot13 is a simple rotation of
Michael,
I just did something like this, and used the ENCODE/DECODE. Works well.
Basically you want to assign a "special key" for the encoding/decoding of the
data you want to encode/decode. The column type should be either a BLOB or
TINYBOLD, as it's stored in a binary format, depend on the siz
Hi all,
I am very new to the encrypt and decrypt data process and would like to know how
do I able to encrypt a string and store to MySQL and retrieve the data and decrypt it
at the later time.
I understood it sorts of contradict the point of security but I just want to use
it to cove
