On May 02, 2006, at 00:46 UTC, Jonathon Bevar wrote: > But, what in the world is MD5?
It's a one-way hash function... that means that it takes a string of text, and converts it to a string of gibberish, in a way that (1) is unlikely to produce the same gibberish for two different pieces of text, yet (2) doesn't provide any practical way to recover the original text from the gibberish. > I did check the LR, and did see what MD5 is all about but, could you show me > a simple piece of code that would work. All I need is for the Password to > be encrypted, then saved to a text file. myOutputStream.WriteLine MD5( thePassword ) C'est tout! Best, - Joe -- Joe Strout -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Available for custom REALbasic programming or instruction. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
