Re: [PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-21 Thread David T-G
Ray -- ...and then Ray said... % % I want to do two-way encryption on a file coming through the web server. In That's an interesting name for it. % this context, I would want to generate a public and private key, encrypt the % file stream (i.e., don't want to write the unencrypted file to

[PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-20 Thread Ray
I want to do two-way encryption on a file coming through the web server. In this context, I would want to generate a public and private key, encrypt the file stream (i.e., don't want to write the unencrypted file to disk first and then encrypt it; I want to encrypt the stream as it comes in) with

RE: [PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-20 Thread Chris W. Parker
Ray mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:29 AM said: Any ideas on how to accomplish this within the PHP construct? Instead of reinventing the wheel you can just use HTTPS. Chris. -- Don't like reformatting your Outlook replies? Now there's relief!

Re: [PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-20 Thread Ray
Chris, I thought of that and I do plan on implementing it on the way in and out. However, to meet HIPA and other business requirements, the data can not exist at any point in time on my system in unencrypted form. I do not want to be able to view it and I do not want to know what is there. Any

RE: [PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-20 Thread Chris W. Parker
Ray mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:32 AM said: I thought of that and I do plan on implementing it on the way in and out. However, to meet HIPA and other business requirements, the data can not exist at any point in time on my system in unencrypted form. I do

Re: [PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-20 Thread Jason Wong
On Friday 21 November 2003 01:31, Ray wrote: I thought of that and I do plan on implementing it on the way in and out. However, to meet HIPA and other business requirements, the data can not exist at any point in time on my system in unencrypted form. I do not want to be able to view it and

Re: [PHP] Two-way on-the-fly encryption

2003-11-20 Thread Ray
1. When you say on my system in unencrypted form do you indeed mean you want data that can be encrypted and then unencrypted as opposed to a hash like md5() that cannot be reversed? (I only ask this because a lot times people use them synonymously when they should not.) Yes, two way, like PKI.