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Using cipher to encrypt
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11/11/2004 07:47:06
Guy Pardoe
Pardoe Development Corporation
Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00960312
Message ID:
00960354
Views:
9
Hi Neil,

I see others have answered your question, but I wanted to clarify that Cipher50 is more current and if you're just getting started you'll probably want to use that.

The Cipher50 .FLL is smaller and faster and I don't think the encrypted strings are compatible between the two versions. So if you ever update the encryption library from v3.0 to v5.0 later on, you'll have an extra task of converting encrypted strings.

Also, FYI, these versions of the Cipher library are not as secure as the Crypto API that has been availble in for use in VFP since VFP7 or VFP8.

Guy



>I have downloaded the cipher encryption tools from the downloads section. There are 2 files namely cipher30.fll and a readme text file. The text file explains the usage i.e.
>encrypt(plaintext,password). How do I incorporate this into my program.
>
>I basically have a logon screen where the user enters a username and password. What I would like to do is encrypt the password in the login.dbf password field.
>
>How do I use the syntax and where do I put the FLL file. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Many Thanks
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