Tracy - Isn't MD5 a hashing algorithm? Meaning I can only encrypt, not decrypt? I don't think this would work for this scenario would it?
Ryan --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is an MD5 library available for AS3 that I have used. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of rmarples > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Local storage of password > > > > I have a requirement to take credentials used for an external web > service and cache them > locally so that the user need not re-type their password each time they > run the app. I can > easily store these credentials in a SharedObject (cookie) but I don't > want to store the > password in plain-text here. Does anybody have any recommendations on an > ecrypt/decrypt > mechanism I can use for this? Also I have a requirement that any key > used to encrypt can not > be stored in the source code as a string literal. > > Ryan >
