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Re: md5_bas64 encryption?by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) |
on May 23, 2005 at 17:59 UTC ( [id://459647]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Those "special characters" are the nature of Base 64 encoding, use md5_hex instead. From the docs: md5_hex($data,...) Same as md5(), but will return the digest in hexadecimal form. The length of the returned string will be 32 and it will only contain characters from this set: '0'..'9' and 'a'..'f'. But chances are how you're comparing the digested strings is wrong because a forward slash shouldn't break it. . . Let me guess- you're doing the comparison with DBI, but you're not using placeholders? -Any sufficiently advanced technology is
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