Re: two way encryption

base64 doesn't have a key, so anyone could decode the string, which is obviously not desirable :) thanks anyway Justin on 15/07/02 2:00 PM, James Cox (imajes@php.net) wrote: > sorry to step in, but did you consider base64_[encode|decode] ? > > -- james > >> >> Justin French wrote: >>> Well, that was on my local test server, which I didn't compile with >>> mcrypt... so that solves that, but it appears my ISP didn't >> compile with it >>> either... so there's very little point in getting my local >> server working >>> with it. >>> >>> What alternatives do I have? >> >> I don't *think* PHP includes any builtin-by-default, non-one-way >> encryption functions, but I haven't looked in a long time so I could be >> wrong. You might be able to get your ISP to install mcrypt itself which >> has a command line utility. Then you could use passthru() I suppose. >> >> Joe >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >>