Re: Password encryption/de-cryption

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From: Sam Nabialek
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 15:35

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In <NEWTNews.807898837.21140.shah@shah.wg.com>, shah@wg.com writes:
>
>Hi there !
>
>I am developing a windows 3.1 app.  This app needs to authenticate a user 
>login by the user name and his/her password.  I need to store this password in 
>some sort of a format in some sort of a file (maybe an ini file).  But first I 
>need to encrypt this password and later on de-crypt to check against the 
>entered password (or maybe there is a better way - I just don't know yet).  
>Could any of you please point me in a better way or point me to some known 
>used technique for this procedure ?
>
  As you're in the US, you could look at the RSA encryption algorithm in PGP
as an encryption method or try a fixed key rotating XOR on the password. The
latter is not very secure but is quite easy to implement. There are a great
many encryption algorithms around, try the University library for books
os standard algorithms.

--
Sam Nabialek
Kelsey Instruments Ltd
Email: nabialek@kelseyuk.demon.co.uk

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Subject: Re: Password encryption/de-cryption
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 15:35:02 GMT
Organization: Kelsey Instruments Ltd.
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