RE: Password Encryption

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris L wrote:
>Is anyone aware of a good one-way password encryption 
>system which can be used in an RPG program?

Andrew L wondered:
>Why would you want to do this?

One reason might be network security.  If I have a socket program that needs
to talk on an unsecured network, it would be better to encrypt the user ID
and password so that a network sniffer can't grab them.

There are secure sockets, but not everybody uses them.  There are security
conscious companies who are afraid that one of their employees will run a
sniffer on their PC.  It doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense, but I'm
not the one making those decisions.  I just need to implement them in code.

Buck 
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