Re: Adding encryption to passwords

On Sep 19, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Nathan Rixham wrote:

Per Jessen wrote:

Thodoris wrote:

So what do you think is the best way to use crypt, mcrypt, hash or perhaps md5 and what are really the differences because I am not sure if I get it right.

We use md5 for that sort of thing. /Per Jessen, Zürich

sha 256 is my prefered encryption, no collision to speak of or decrytion tables; also returns back a 64char string; which can be stored in a mysql BINARY(64) column which is v fast with the appropriate index.

If you're using MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/encryption-functions.html We use AES de/encryption. Works well. =D ~Philip