On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:00, Bart Simpson wrote:
> What are some practical uses of APR::Base64?

Sending binary data in ASCII.

>   Encoding
> credit card nums before storing in DB?  Passwords?  

No.  It's not encryption.

> I'm
> particular in need of encrypting/encoding credit card
> nums before storing them

Two-way encryption?  Blowfish, with Crypt::CBC.  Storing credit cards is
a bad idea though.

- Perrin


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