[dev] security idea

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org> wrote:

> Any ideas on what to use for the encryption? I'd like to not require
> mcrypt -

Why?

> I'm looking at the package.HCEMD5 code that we've had around for a
> while...

Hmmm... I don't know what that code does, but MD5 is only one-way hashing,
of course.  You'll need something that's (two-way) private-key encryption;
IDEA, triple-DES, Blowfish, Twofish, etc.

We could use Rijndael and be really cutting-edge.  :-)

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