Re: Encryption Question

Wow, these are all really GREAT answers! Thank you!! I LOVE learning this kind of stuff and it's overwhelming sometimes seeing all the different stuff that's out there to learn (like the MD5_hex & MD5_base64, etc).

That said, I went with the Crypt::RC4 solution. Our magazine is free to US subscribers (it's a trade magazine for restaurant folks, so you guys wouldn't be interested, I bet ;)), so there's no credit card #'s and the folks that do use this online that receive the e-mail (or actually have e-mail to begin with!) won't monkey around with the URL to figure out others (especially when they see that awesome encryption of their userid: 62c88fb1d64d).

Thanks again for all your responses!

Jason

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Re: Re: Encryption Question by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2001 at 01:25 UTC
Incidentally, the second edition of O'Reilly's CGI Programming book explains these issues very nicely. You can even read that chapter on-line here.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Encryption Question by Purdy (Hermit) on Nov 02, 2001 at 01:39 UTC
Thanks! I'll check that out. I just bought the mod_perl book from O'Reilly and I'm looking forward to writing my first project in that! :)	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Encryption Question by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2001 at 01:43 UTC
There's some more stuff about using a MAC in the mod_perl book, but in general all of the security information in the CGI book applies directly to mod_perl.	[reply]