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.
Thanks, Steve
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-----Original Message----- From: Gordon Heydon [mailto:gordon@heydon.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:05 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Encrypting CCK Data
HI,
Because of how PHP works is is not really possible to encrypt data within the Drupal database.
basically the problem is that to encrypt and decrypt the data you will need the private key, so any person who wants to find decrypt the data will most likely have full access to the private key and all the code to decrypt it. Even to the point of just calling directly the same php code to get the get the clear text.
I would love to be able to do this for e-Commerce, but there is no way to keep it 100% safe. If they have access to the database, the rest is available to get the clear text version.
Gordon.
On 04/02/2009, at 5:56 AM, Steve Kessler wrote:
I am trying to make a site that will hold some sensitive information that I would like to have at least minimal encryption on some of my CCK fields. Is there an easy way to encrypt CCK text fields? I would need to display the un-encrypted values when the nodes were viewed by users with the correct permissions.
Thanks, Steve
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