Re: (spam)secure mailform
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Re: (spam)secure mailform

From: Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 15:26:07 CEST

richard wrote:
> 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
>
>

Richard,

Please check back - that was not my quote. What I said was at the bottom of the
message.

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Received on Tue Oct 18 02:06:22 2005