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where can i go to get a program to encrypt my passwords and ussernames for my web site??????

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Can you elaborate more on this topic, encrypt passwords for your website? How are you storing the passwords and is it for logging in or something else?

 

 

Cheers, MC

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if it's for php, dan use md5 hashing or something like that. you cannot decrypt those!! so basicly, what you have to do, is encrypt your passwords in your file/database. and then when a user enters his password, you encrypt the word he entered and compare the two encrypted words. it's hypersafe :)

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If you want to ecncrypt a file o a text try kremlin(http://www.kremlinencrypt.com/), there is also a little introduction to the different kind of cryptographic algorithms :)

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this site is hosted on a Linux server... (using shadow passwords) so they will automatically be hashed.

 

for other types of encryption...

 

a good program for public/private key pair encryption is GnuPG (GPG)

or for hard disk encryption there is a good script called cryptsetup (uses kenrel level dm-crypt)

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Can you elaborate more on this topic, encrypt passwords for your website?  How are you storing the passwords and is it for logging in or something else?

Cheers, MC

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its for passwords and usernames i need it so people will not be able to find out wut the persons password and i need it so i can send people files ans stuff

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you're still not very clear.answer these questions:-where should the usernames & pw be stored? mysql database? file?-where do the users enter their name/password? php-website, like a form? or a program they download and connects to your server?-do you have to be able to decrypt them? this is NOT neccessary to check if their password is correct. let's say you store the encrypted version of username & pw. and a user is entering his info. than all you have to do is encrypt the info he entered and then compater it with the info in your database/file-why encrypt the username? doesn't seem very handy to me.

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you're still not very clear.

answer these questions:

-where should the usernames & pw be stored? mysql database? file?

-where do the users enter their name/password? php-website, like a form? or a program they download and connects to your server?

-do you have to be able to decrypt them? this is NOT neccessary to check if their password is correct. let's say you store the encrypted version of username & pw. and a user is entering his info. than all you have to do is encrypt the info he entered and then compater it with the info in your database/file

-why encrypt the username? doesn't seem very handy to me.

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Sending Files securely..... you probably mean you want to encrypt them right ?

use GnuPG (GPG)

 

goto https://www.gnupg.org/

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I would probobly recommend PHP's MD5 hashing functions for encrypting web-based content. The only problem that this might cause is that it is a one-way encryption algorithm; meaning that it can never be decrypted. As such, it is only really useful for passwords, where the user enters a password and it is re-hashed using the same algorithm and salt, and then the two hashed strings are compared.

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