On 20/6/00 9:58 am, Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking at the Ask Dialog with a view of using a clone of
> it in my application. However, I'd like to be able to present a
> traditional "change/set password" dialog where the user is asked to
> enter their current password and then type in their new password
> twice. This means I'll need direct access to MC's encryption
> function.
>
> I've checked the on-line help and can't find any reference to
> encryption in MC apart from stack the protection mechanism. However,
> when I looked at the scripts of the Ask Dialog, I found the use of an
> undocumented function "mcencrypt()". Does anyone know the details of
> this function, what it produces and how secure it is? Also, is there
> an mcdecrypt() function or is the mechanism one-way only (a very
> common approach!)?
It should be fairly secure, but it is only one-way.
Regards,
Kevin
> Cheers
>
> Peter
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