Tilly's advice is very true -- some other programming community websites that I visit have "encryption" code sections. Most code offerings have one of three themes. If you feel the need to try your hand at encryption, try one of the better documented, free (speech) algorithms : blowfish. Source code (in C and visual basic) is present, as well as a white paper describing the algoritm. There's even a set of test data to verify your implementation's correctness.

Again, writing good encryption is sticky stuff -- especially when TASMWTODI, including blowfish (and even an all-perl version). So, unless you have a wild encryption itch to scratch, I'd suggest one of these existing modules.
update : Level II encryption??? what's level I? ;-)

In reply to Re: Re (boo) 1: CipherText by boo_radley
in thread CipherText by NodeReaper

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