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Re: (spam)secure mailform
From: richard <richard@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 08:57:51 CEST
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 08:57:51 CEST
On 2005-07-17, Bob Smith <bobsmith1@marketweighton.com> wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> I'd ideally put a cookie in a md5 thingy, to protect the data from being
> visual to the user, ...then it is more difficult to figure out what is
> actually in there. simply unpack and validate upon script run.
> Naturally, there is no way to make forms 100% secure...
md5 is a one way function. If you do
$string=md5($data1);
there is no way to do
$data2=some_ficticous_un_md5($string);
such that
$data1==$data2
Received on Tue Oct 18 02:06:18 2005