Re: encripted storage

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 20124
interpreted = N
texte = At 0:25 Uhr -1000 29.09.1998, Kenneth Grome wrote:>>>say I want to store credit card numbers or whatever in a web cat database, >>>can it be stored encripted? >> >>You can use the [encrypt...] context. But you have to store the seed value >>somewhere, somehow. > >Why not store the seed value in your brain, then enter it into a form >field whenever necessary? Using this method means never having to >hard-code the seed value into a template, or an include file, or a >database field ... :)Maybe someone wants to show encrypted data to the customer via a web-interface: If you store different seed values with the records, you can decrypt the seed with a hidden master-seed - anyway, I do not know if that really makes sense, was just loud thinking :) Peter__________________________________________ Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: encripted storage (Peter Ostry 1998)
  2. Re: encripted storage (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  3. Re: encripted storage (Peter Ostry 1998)
  4. encripted storage (Gavin Clark 1998)
At 0:25 Uhr -1000 29.09.1998, Kenneth Grome wrote:>>>say I want to store credit card numbers or whatever in a web cat database, >>>can it be stored encripted? >> >>You can use the [encrypt...] context. But you have to store the seed value >>somewhere, somehow. > >Why not store the seed value in your brain, then enter it into a form >field whenever necessary? Using this method means never having to >hard-code the seed value into a template, or an include file, or a >database field ... :)Maybe someone wants to show encrypted data to the customer via a web-interface: If you store different seed values with the records, you can decrypt the seed with a hidden master-seed - anyway, I do not know if that really makes sense, was just loud thinking :) Peter__________________________________________ Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Peter Ostry

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