[Gambas-user] How to decrypt a text? Any suggestions?

[Rob]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:17, Brant Wells wrote:
> You could always come up with a quick formula based on the
> ASCII value of the Text that you are storing.   The upside is
> that you can always change it, etc.  However, the downside, is
> that it can be slow if your program has to call it many times.

I think that rolling your own encryption is worse than no 
encryption at all, because it might give someone a false sense 
of security.  Since he's using mysql I would suggest he look at 
the CRYPT() and PASSWORD() function calls and use them in his 
SQL statements.

But wrapping the Unix crypt() function or MD5 hashing (both of 
which are one way and appropriate for password authentication) 
is really the way to go here, and shouldn't be that hard in a 
gb.crypt component.  Not that I'm volunteering at the moment 
since I'm still working on patching gambas so my package will 
work (and thanks to Dries for giving me a spec file that almost 
worked.... as long as I went "cd /usr/bin" or "cd /usr/lib" 
first, projects would run ;)  I think I can figure it out from 
this point....)

Rob