Posted by Rik Wasmus on 11/23/07 16:56

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:47:23 +0100, Acrobatic <jbnunn@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to store user passwords in a MySQL database. I learned the
> hard way that using MySQL "DECODE" and "ENCODE" doesn't seem to work
> cross-platform, but if I encrypt on the server side with PHP's md5
> function, will it work cross-platform (or cross-processor?)

md5 should even be cross-language/script. A Perl md5 =3D a PHP md5 =3D a=
MySQL =

md5 =3D a JAVA md5.

You can't decrypt/decode it though (well, at least not practically).
-- =

Rik Wasmus

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