Re: RPG Encryption Algorithm??

[Robert Upshall <rupshall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am looking at the code example on March 1999 issue of News/400 that 
was recommended from the url:
  http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/199906/msg00064.html

It appears that this is doing what I need to do, I want to secure 
usernames and passwords for an internal system.  I know very little 
about encryption, as encryption goes will the code from the News/400 
example do what I want it do do?  Is it a secure encryption method?  Is 
the _CIPHER procedure the example uses relatively secure?

Excuse my ignorance,
Robert



Buck Calabro wrote:
> > Does anypody know of a way I can "encrypt" plain alpha text in a RPG 
> > program and then store it in a DB2 file?
>
>
> I'm not at all sure of the application, but a search of the archives turned
> up these:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200110/msg00716.html
>
> http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/199906/msg00064.html
> http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200010/msg00206.html
> http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200010/msg00210.html
>
>   --buck
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Robert Upshall
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