Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 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.
>
apologies
Received on Tue Oct 18 02:06:27 2005