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

[Hans-Martin Bundeshund]

Hi!

Sorry for the delay, but I am very busy at this moment. (big network problems 
at work, have to work at night too, when the users aren't using the system)

Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 16:29 schrieb Rob:
> 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.

Thanks Rob, didn't know that. I work with DB2 on an iSeries/AS400 in my job, 
so I don't have much expierence with mysql, but I'll better look into the 
manuel next time. 
>
> 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