Re: PHP/MYSQL/ Encrypting Sensetive information

From: Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:15:19 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP/MYSQL/ Encrypting Sensetive information
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If its by a user-basis, something that can be a bit risky but possible - You can encrypt it, password is hashed on database, and the key to the other data is the un-encrypted password.. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Russell Jones <rjonesx@gmail.com> wrote: > We are looking at a project where we will potentially need to store > sensetive information in a few fields of a MySQL table. Any recommendations > on where to look for best practices in doing this? for encrypting the data, > etc.? We will need to be able to decrypt the data as well, although this > can > probably be done locally, so hashing alone is not really an option. > > Russell Jones > -- Use ROT26 for best security

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