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

[Daniel Oxley]

I have been trying for a while now to re-code a class i put hacked/together 
in VB6 into Gambas.  It is a VB implementation of DES encryption.  You are 
welcome to it if you want, on the understanding that you let me have the 
gambas version in return!!!!


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From: Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...>
To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:29:38 -0400
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] How to decrypt a text? Any suggestions?

> 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
> 
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