On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Peter Reid wrote:
> Can I check what characters can be in an encrypted string as
> generated by mcEncrypt(). This is the function used to produce
> passwords by the Ask dialog but it is not documented in the help.
> I'd like to be sure that a generated password can't include the tab
> character as I want to store user passwords in tab-delimited records.
> Also, I'm generating dummy user data and want to generate passwords
> based on combinations of first names, surnames, initials etc. and
> don't want to generate passwords containing my field/item separator!
It can contain tabs, so you'd better use the base64Encode() function to
encode it before storing it away.
> Also, I'm assuming that there isn't an mcDecrypt (common practice
> with password systems is that they are one-way process only). If
> there is a decryption function, what is it called and what are its
> parameters?
There isn't one.
Scott
> Cheers
>
> Peter
> --
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