Re: encryption for postgres

On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 hodges@xprt.net wrote:

> I need to save user ids and passwords to be used for access
> to records in a database.  The passwords should be encrypted
> before saving.  Are there builtin or standard php functions
> to do encryption/decryption or does one need to add a library
> to a standard php install (RedHat 7.1).

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php

or, for better security,

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php

(btw, found this by searching for 'encryption' on the
homepage at php.net.)

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