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in thread Creating a rainbow table for a ten-digit number: Advice?

If all you want is the appearance of security, why not use XOR? Better yet, use something like Crypt::Rijndael so you can claim to be using the Advanced Encryption Standard.

As far as the database goes, you can encrypt your data (with padding, Xilman++) before you do your INSERT and decrypt after you do your SELECT.

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Re^4: Creating a rainbow table for a ten-digit number: Advice?
by willyyam (Priest) on Apr 12, 2010 at 00:45 UTC

    With respect, XOR only provides the appearance of security to the naive or ignorant. Ethics committees are, for the most part, neither.

      Indeed, I was being a bit silly about using XOR, which is why I included the bit about AES.