Frank,

Thanks for the info. What do you use to encrypt information?

Thanks,

Jerry


>Hi Jerry,
>
>I believe that the _crypt.vcx uses the CryptoAPI which produces different results depending on the OS it is run on. It is a real PITA and why I don't use it for encrypting stuff.
>
>>I am using the _crypt.vcx class for password encryption and I store the password to a field in a table.
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>>This works great, however, I do notice that once a password has been encrypted on the production PC, it cannot be decrypted on any other PC. Normally this would be fine, but is there a way to be able to encrypt and decrypt a password from either the production or development PC?
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>>The production PC is a W2K advance server and the development PC is an XP Pro.
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>>Is there a setting to adjust to make the encryption algorithm the same?
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jerry