Re: Password Encryption

2002-09-22 Thread Christian Haul
On 20.Sep.2002 -- 12:10 PM, Antonio Gallardo Rivera wrote: > I am using authentication against the database. I am storing and geting the > user parameters from a database. My question is: > > How can I encrypt the password to store it then in the database? > > Thanks in advance :) If you want

RE: Password Encryption

2002-09-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
A bit off-topic, but: A good method is using a SHA-Hash of the password like this: public static String encryptPassword(String pstrPassword) { MessageDigest sha = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA"); sha.update(pstrPassword.getBytes()); byte abytHash[] = sha.digest(); Stri