Uh... you're right, it doesn't help. I don't like to think of myself as a
ColdFusion programmer (I think the language itself it pretty weak) and I
didn't write the code, but I'm forced to clean up the mess of a co-worker.
I'm not surprised that it's an obfuscated function, though, to be honest...
there have been similar problems in the past.
As a side, however, why are there even "unofficial" functions included in
the standard distribution of ColdFusion? If you don't want people to use
it, or you want to make it obvious that it's not a function that's to be
used, as you say is the case, why have it implemented in the first place?
That seems kinda weird to me...
Anyone have any suggestions on getting this to work? (The temporary 4.5
machine isn't an option at this point either)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:54 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Encryption differences in ColdFusion 4.5 and 5.0?
>
>
> Errr, this doesn't help you, but why did you use that function instead of
> the "real" function, Encrypt? Wasn't it a bit dangerous to use the
> "unofficial" function in the first place?
>
> I'm not saying you are stupid or anything, and I'm not speaking for MACR,
> but it does seem like something that should have been a bit obvious...
> right? Or are many users out there using the "unofficial" functions?
>
> You may be able to simply run a massive cfusion_decrypt on a
> temporary CF4.5
> machine, then restore them using encrypt instead of cfusion_encrypt.
>
> =======================================================================
> Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia
>
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>
> "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Feltenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:49 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Encryption differences in ColdFusion 4.5 and 5.0?
> >
> >
> >
> > I recently upgraded ColdFusion 4.5.2 to 5.0 on a website I'm
> > using, and now
> > some users can't log in to the site. I'm using the
> > CFusion_Encrypt (string,
> > key) function, and it seems that the encryption is slightly different
> > between the two versions of ColdFusion. The key hasn't
> changed, and this
> > problem just started when we upgraded to 5.0. Can anyone help
> me out? Is
> > there a difference in the encryption, or is CF 5's encrypt
> syntax slightly
> > different? This is urgent, as we have several thousand users in our
> > database that work with 4.5.2 but not with 5.0, and going back to 4.5.2
> > doesn't look like an option at this point... Thanks.
> >
> > - Dave Feltenberger
> >
> >
> >
>
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