Encrypt/Decrypt

Forgive me if this is a very basic question, i can't find the info in the manual/function list. I want to encrypt a password w/ a salt string that is randomly generated (10 chars), and then prepend the salt string onto the beginning of the encrypted string, save the string in a database, and move on. Later, i want to be able to retrive the encrypted string w/ the salt in it, grab the salt and use it to decrypt the password. - Is this possible and how would it be done? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. //Nick Richardson //esoteric.web@gte.net //webmaster@moderngarage.com -------------------------------------------------------------- -- We must come to see that the end we seek, is a society -- -- at peace with itself. A society that can live with its -- -- concience. That will be a day not of the white man, not -- -- of the black man... That will be the day of man, as man! -- -- -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- -- -March 25th, 1965 -- --------------------------------------------------------------