Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:04 +0700, Peter Lauri wrote: I have bumped into a problem. I need to use a web service that is located on server B from server A. The server B will execute a script when the web service is accessed and an email is sent as an parameter. The problem is, if I only have

RE: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Peter Lauri
Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure? On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:04 +0700, Peter Lauri wrote: I have bumped into a problem. I need to use a web service that is located on server B from server A. The server B will execute a script when the web service is accessed and an email is sent as an parameter

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Ruben Rubio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 $authstring = md5(asdf.$email.fdsa); md5 is unsecure. Use sha1 ( http://www.php.net/sha1 ) instead -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Jon Anderson
Ruben Rubio wrote: md5 is unsecure. Use sha1 ( http://www.php.net/sha1 ) instead SHA1 has also been partially broken. Until more hash algorithms work their way into PHP, using both md5 and sha1 plus the remote IP as mentioned in a previous email would certainly add to the security of the

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Satyam
What you are doing is what banks have been doing for ages with wire transfers and it is called MAC, Message Authentication Code (not related to an Ethernet MAC address at all). Wire transfers are sent in clear text amongst banks. Each bank has set a 'signature' (a code) with each other.

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Alex Turner
-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure? On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:04 +0700, Peter Lauri wrote: I have bumped into a problem. I need to use a web service that is located on server B from server A. The server B will execute a script when the web service is accessed and an email

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread tedd
At 4:48 PM +0200 9/5/06, Satyam wrote: It doesn't matter that MD5 is not secure or that it can be decripted (which, in fact, it cannot, since it is a one-way code), Not that you said otherwise. It's my understanding that while MD5 has cannot be decrypted some encryption can be cracked by

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Satyam
I didn't mean to contradict anyone, I just meant to make sure that Peter knew that in this case it didn't matter. Satyam - Original Message - From: tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread Oscar Gosdinski
On 9/5/06, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:48 PM +0200 9/5/06, Satyam wrote: It's my understanding that while MD5 has cannot be decrypted some encryption can be cracked by matching matching results. They don't have to work the code backwards. For example, if I MD5 apple -- it will produces a

Re: [PHP] Is this unsecure?

2006-09-05 Thread tedd
At 12:10 PM -0500 9/5/06, Oscar Gosdinski wrote: On 9/5/06, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:48 PM +0200 9/5/06, Satyam wrote: It's my understanding that while MD5 has cannot be decrypted some encryption can be cracked by matching matching results. They don't have to work the code backwards.