Re: [flexcoders] Re: AS3 encryption

2007-04-10 Thread Alias™
MD5 is a one-way encryption algorithm, so it won't be any use for encrypting data in the way you want - it's only for hashing and passwords, really. If you need additional encryption to https, you could try encrypting the data with TEA http://www.simonshepherd.supanet.com/tea.htm There's an

[flexcoders] Re: AS3 encryption

2007-04-10 Thread Doug Lowder
True about that. I assumed the poster was talking about usernames/passwords alone, but maybe that isn't the case. I guess I'm wondering why anyone would want to essentially re- implement portions of SSL. As a user, I certainly wouldn't trust any site that was loaded over HTTP instead of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: AS3 encryption

2007-04-10 Thread Jeffry Houser
I can't imagine why anyone would want to re-implement SSL inside the flash player. But, that said, there may be other perfectly valid reasons for wanting to encrypt data you're sending back and forth. At 02:03 PM 4/10/2007, Doug Lowder wrote: True about that. I assumed the poster was

[flexcoders] Re: AS3 encryption

2007-04-09 Thread Doug Lowder
The AS3 corelib has an MD5 algorithm implemented. http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:libra\ ries http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:libr\ aries Probably the safest way to send data, though, would be to send over HTTPS rather than

Re: [flexcoders] Re: AS3 encryption

2007-04-09 Thread Jeffry Houser
What Doug said But, depending what you want to do you can also take a look at: http://ascrypt3.riaforge.org/index.cfm ( My open source project ) and http://crypto.hurlant.com/ | http://z3labs.com/2007/03/05/as3crypto/ (An alternate open source crypto project, which has more options than

Re: [flexcoders] Re: AS3 encryption

2007-04-09 Thread Jerome Clarke a.k.a sinatosk
this project has public/private but it's written in ASP and JavaScript only and he/she hasn't updated it in a long while and I don't know ASP well to convert it :p... maybe you can? it's at http://assl.sullof.com/assl/ On 09 Apr 2007 09:55:17 -0700, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: