Thanks Jason,

I decided to go for the general solution and used the URLEncodedFormat
function to allow the encrypted values to be stored in a varchar(64) field in
mysql. 

Next step is to work out the best way of securing the key value, keeping it in
a file doesn't seem like a good idea. Is it possible to get the CF server to
prompt for the key value when it starts up? This way the key would only be
stored in memory while CF was running. This would be similar to the approach
used by Apache with encrypted certificates.


Jason Brooke wrote:
> 
> > When I encrypt a pretend credit card number, I get a string as follows:
> >
> > 3)I?.#MU\UL&M7__,"8 5$R/-ZP!!
> >
> > I then store this value in a MySQL database, the problem is that the
> encrypted
> > string (tinyblob) is stored as follows:
> >
> > 3)I?.#MUUL&M7__,"8 5$R/-ZP!!
> >
> > It would appear that MySQL is treating the backslash after #MU as an
> escape
> > and is stripping it out. Does anyone know how to get around this problem?
> >
> > Cheers.  Paul
> 
> Escape slashes with a slash
> 
> jason
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