encryption question

2003-02-22 Thread Kay Smoljak
Technically, yes you could, if the program the end user had could accept the RSA key that cardcrypt/textcrypt created and you gave them. Problem is, we haven't actually managed to do this yet - the PGP client on Windows has the option of importing a legacy RSA key but that key needs to be

Re: encryption question

2003-02-22 Thread mark brinkworth
PGP talks about Radix64 format, and I always thought this was the same as Base64. So, I would have thought it was basically a matter of constructing the appropriate wrapper (RFC 1991) around the key. But then, I could be completely wrong :) Technically, yes you could, if the program the end

encryption question

2003-02-21 Thread Owens, Howard
I don't know much about encryption ... If I encrypt something with one of the PertWeb encyption tools (http://developer.perthweb.com.au/), can another user (assuming the user has the private key) decrypt the string with software other than a cfx tag? I mean, is there something I can have people

Re: encryption question

2003-02-21 Thread Cary Gordon
It would be much easier to do this with ssl certificates. You wouldn't need commercial certs for this. With IIS, you can generate both a server and client cert and enrcrypt traffic between them. I am pretty sure that there is an open source system to do the same on Linux. Cary Gordon The

RE: encryption question

2003-02-21 Thread Owens, Howard
Subject: Re: encryption question It would be much easier to do this with ssl certificates. You wouldn't need commercial certs for this. With IIS, you can generate both a server and client cert and enrcrypt traffic between them. I am pretty sure that there is an open source system

RE: encryption question

2001-07-24 Thread Daniel Kemp
Think of it this way: I give you a safe. I give you the plans to the safe. I give you all the materials that the safe was made out of. Now then, I Mind you I've always worked this way, assume *anything* and everything can be unencrypted and viewed with ease. Then code according that that

RE: encryption question PART 2 HEHE

2001-07-24 Thread Pooh Bear
hey, i'm the Original Inquirer. heh, kinda like that title. ermm anyways, like i said, the code turns 4665775886868576 into hkjsdhk987697834^*^@@@Kj=-018^%13534kljdsa986(*@*(@# dsjfkhk junk. someone said that someone could get the pattern, but i think it is impossible, since part of the

Encryption Question PART 2

2001-07-24 Thread Pooh Bear
hey, i'm the Original Inquirer. heh, kinda like that title. ermm anyways, like i said, the code turns 4665775886868576 into hkjsdhk987697834^*^@@@Kj=-018^%13534kljdsa986(*@*(@# dsjfkhk junk. someone said that someone could get the pattern, but i think it is impossible, since part of the

RE: encryption question PART 2 HEHE

2001-07-24 Thread CFTalk
Pooh Bear I used a similar technique in my custom tag cf_cryp that's in the developer's gallery. I actually use the encrypt() function in CF and then do various operations to convert characters, shift bits and flip nibbles. I also added a checksum (also encoded) so I could validate the

RE: Encryption Question PART 2

2001-07-24 Thread Kwang Suh
at will? -Original Message- From: Pooh Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 24, 2001 2:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Encryption Question PART 2 hey, i'm the Original Inquirer. heh, kinda like that title. ermm anyways, like i said, the code turns 4665775886868576 into hkjsdhk987697834

RE: Encryption Question PART 2

2001-07-24 Thread Dave Watts
hey, i'm the Original Inquirer. heh, kinda like that title. ermm anyways, like i said, the code turns 4665775886868576 into hkjsdhk987697834^*^@@@Kj=-018^%13534kljdsa986(*@*(@# dsjfkhk junk. someone said that someone could get the pattern, but i think it is impossible, since part of the

Re: Encryption Question PART 2

2001-07-24 Thread Robi Sen
Pooh, You may be able to obfuscate your information from most people but anyone with some time and a decent system will most likely have a easy go with your algorithm. What you are doing sounds like very simple encryption scheme and is rife for frequency analysis which would not be that hard

RE: Encryption Question PART 2

2001-07-24 Thread Shawn Grover
Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Encryption Question PART 2 hey, i'm the Original Inquirer. heh, kinda like that title. ermm anyways, like i said, the code turns 4665775886868576 into hkjsdhk987697834^*^@@@Kj=-018^%13534kljdsa986

Re: encryption question PART 2 HEHE

2001-07-24 Thread Robi Sen
You might want to look at this http://jenghis.thirdtier.com/crypto/ which uses Strong Crypto. This URL is rather outdated and the lattest version I have written supports all the AES systems as well as various forms of public key crypto and exchange. Its also super fast so its fine for little

RE: Encryption Question PART 2

2001-07-24 Thread Sicular, Alexander
, Alexander Sicular Chief Technology Architect Neurological Institute of New York Columbia University as867 [at] columbia {dot} edu -Original Message- From: Pooh Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Encryption Question PART 2 hey, i'm

encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Pooh Bear
hey guys, i sitll dont understand what encryption really is. Is this encryption?.. I wrote coldfusion code to turn this fake credit card number 2775644756644736 into something like GGJEJH-()%#^@%HSJDH#**#PQP{}{:LLHSKNCJHDJKSJSHD. I did that by moving numbers around, changing to ASCII,

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
hey guys, i sitll dont understand what encryption really is. Is this encryption?.. I wrote coldfusion code to turn this fake credit card number 2775644756644736 into something like GGJEJH-()%#^@%HSJDH#**#PQP{}{:LLHSKNCJHDJKSJSHD. I did that by moving numbers around, changing to

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Bryan Love
, July 23, 2001 2:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: encryption question hey guys, i sitll dont understand what encryption really is. Is this encryption?.. I wrote coldfusion code to turn this fake credit card number 2775644756644736 into something like GGJEJH-()%#^@%HSJDH#**#PQP

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
what's wrong with CFENCRYPT? It's too damn easy to unencrypt - the encryption method is known... Philip Arnold Director Certified ColdFusion Developer ASP Multimedia Limited T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133 Websites for the real world

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Bryan Love
Message- From: Philip Arnold - ASP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: encryption question what's wrong with CFENCRYPT? It's too damn easy to unencrypt - the encryption method is known... Philip Arnold Director Certified ColdFusion

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
pardon my ignorance, but isn't the encryption method for ALL publicly available encryption techniques known? The style maybe known, but the one used for CFEncrypt isn't particularly difficult to decrypt - thus if someone can get to your site and knows your using CF, then they'll try the

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Angel Stewart
Oook. We'll take it a step further. There are publicly available CF Tags to decrypt cf encoded pages. There is C++ Source to decode CF Encrypted pages. There is Perl scripting to decode CF Encrypted pages. My little pommeranian can decode cf encrypted pages with a doggie decoder ring and a few

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Bryan Love
, 2001 4:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: encryption question pardon my ignorance, but isn't the encryption method for ALL publicly available encryption techniques known? The style maybe known, but the one used for CFEncrypt isn't particularly difficult to decrypt - thus if someone can get to your

another encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Adrian Cesana
I need to change my DB (MSSQL7) stored passwords so they are encrypted in the DB. What are some of the more industrial strength methods of doing this? Thanks,Adrian ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Kwang Suh
decrypting. A BAD encryption scheme will fall apart. CFENCRYPT is the latter. DON'T ever use it for encrypting sensitive material (e.g. CC numbers). -Original Message- From: Bryan Love [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 23, 2001 6:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: encryption question

RE: encryption question

2001-07-23 Thread Angel Stewart
ARF! g ruff ruff! ArF! -SpARkY -Original Message- From: Bryan Love [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] p.s. can your pomeranian really decrypt CF? ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at