> how good is the encryption  that the built in cf function use?
>
Its alright, but its only as secure as your server as you have to keep the
encryption/decryption key on the server.

> good enough for cc's
>
Definately not...  Look at something like pgp for encrypting credit card
numbers, where you have a public and private key pair and the key that you
need to decrypt the cc numbers is not kept on the server.

> passwords?
>
~shrug~ I suppose you could, but probably better to use hash() as its a one
way encryption algorithm.

Regards

Stephen


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