[support] Encrypting CCK Data

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Steve Kessler <skessler at denverdataman.com>:

> I am a little confused. How is this done with passwords using MD5? I would
> happy with MD5 encryption. I would love to understand this if I am missing
> something.
>

As others have tried to explain MD5 hashes are one directional, there 
is no method to allow for giving back the original string.  However, 
every time you pass the same string to MD5 you get the same hash 
result.  You can have a look to 
http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.mcrypt.php and the PEAR encryption 
packages at 
http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=6&catname=Encryption&php=all.

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