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md5 encryption

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:02 pm
by Apix
At the moment im thinking of encrypting my members infromation so if the database gets hacked there information will be safe. I have got it working and it uses md5 to encrypt the information. I was just wonderig if its possible to display the unencrypted information say when i want to update there information or whatever? I have a feeling that md5 is a one way encryption isnt it. If this is true is there another way of encrypting the information so it can be decrypted and updated or displayed on a admin page?

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 9:42 pm
by hob_goblin

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 9:45 pm
by hob_goblin
scratch that.. crypt is one way too... my brain wasn't working. but later on in the post it talks about what you were asking.

Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 10:38 pm
by daemorhedron
You were close, probably thinking of mcrypt() which is an encryption/decryption routine. You can also look into openssl and mhash too.

HTH