>>Thank you for the links. Actually I already use the sweetpotatosoftware encryption in one place of my application (encrypting user license key) and it works very well.
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>>>Check
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http://doughennig.com/papers/Pub/201103dhen.pdf>>>-
http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2009/08/09/MajorVFPEncryptionUpdate.aspx>>>
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>Hi Dmitry:
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>The hashing is really simple. You can do a test of concept using your user name and applying a MD5 checksum, then you save this MD5 checksum on a variable.
>Next time you enter a user name and obtain the MD5 checksum, you compare this checksum with the saved one. If they are equal, the password (whatever it is) is correct, otherwise is not.
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>The value you send to the server is the checksum, never the real password.
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>That way you never store passwords, but their checksums, and you can implement it very fast.
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>Best regards.-
Hi Fernando,
Thank you for the explanation. I do understand now how MD5 hash works.
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