[nycphp-talk] Encrypt/Decrypt without MCrypt
Christopher R. Merlo
cmerlo at ncc.edu
Mon Dec 1 10:57:21 EST 2003
On 2003-12-01 10:44 -0500, Brian Pang <bpang at bpang.com> wrote:
> Ideally, one wouldn't have to re-interpret the code, but at least you
> would know that there's a bunch of crap in there you can ignore.
What I meant is, it will be very hard to debug, maintain, and add new
features later, if you obfuscate the code *on purpose*. Lots of us do
that anyway, by accident. :)
> Comparing an MD5 sum stored in a DB also won't reveal what the
> stored/encrypted data is, which I think is what was being sought here.
Yeah, I realized that after reading Jeff's last e-mail. Jeff, it
sounds like mcrypt is the way to go. Can it become available to you?
In other words, can you get the site admin to install it?
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Recursion, n:
See recursion. See also tail recursion.
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