Hi,

sorry for late response - I was out of the town.

These are completly different things : MD5 and SHA1 are _hashes_ --> they create fingerprints of text of any length in such way, that it is almost impossible to create string with this hash. Public and private keys (used in PGP for example) has nothing to do with this.

Best reagards
Milan

>Milan,
>
>Thank you for sharing your CryptPak. I am mostly interested in SHA1 and MD5 at his point. As far as I understand, a public and a private key are involved. How do we obtain those keys? Can I get the keys from CryptPak? TIA
>
>Chen
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I don't want to bother you, but in http://milan.jikos.cz/CryptPak/index.html is my CryptPak library (using CryptPak.DLL, which is also freeware) for encryption/decryption, which is also able to generate SHA1 and MD5 hash. I'm also able to generate SHA1 directly in VFP, but this is of course slower :).
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Milan
>>
>>>I submitted a wishlist for this, but it appears not enough developers felt there was a need for it (yet). You might try:
>>>
>>>http://www.bokler.com/hashcipher.html
>>>
>>>It supports VFP according to the author.
>>>
>>>You might try cryptor also.
>>>
>>>>Tracy and Javier,
>>>>
>>>>I am wondering how can one incorporate MD5 or the like technology into a VFP application. Is there a class or component ready to be used in a VFP application so that keys can be generated and records be signed? I really need this function in my application but am not sure the best approach. TIA
>>>>
>>>>Chen