RE: Encryption differences in ColdFusion 4.5 and 5.0?

[Raymond Camden]

> > it is a mistake to use unofficial functions
>
>
> So what's a developer to do if the "official" function is known to produce
> unpredictable results that breaks applications and the
> "unofficial" function
> produces predictable, useful results?

Report it, there are multiple ways of doing that. The best way is via tech
support, or via the Forums. As for this case, I'm looking into it myself to
see if I can recreate the bug. So far, I've mainly heard that the _output_
from the functions are a bit odd, but not wrong, per se. Tyson said, "The
issue with the out-of-the-box ColdFusion encrypt/decrypt functions is
that it doesn't limit itself to "safe" characters when doing the
encrypting." and I think again the point is what is meant by "safe"
characters. Jon Hall pointed out a method to make the string db safe.

-Ray (who just happens to work for Macromedia, but doesn't speak for em,
blah blah blah ;)


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