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[Daniel Kushner]

Hi Jeff,

That wouldn't really work. decoding the $sEncoded variable would result in
a serialized array, thus exposing your PIN.

Best,
Daniel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
> [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Siegel
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:18 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] Encrypt/Decrypt without MCrypt
>
>
> I may be faced with a situation where I don't have MCrypt for
> encrypting/decrypting data. I need to store the PIN numbers in a
> database and be able to retrieve them. Is there some other method I can
> use instead? I was thinking, perhaps, something like the following:
>
> $myPinNumber = "123DGH";
> $sSecret    = '7R5D1N3V5C4Y6Z2X';
> $ary    = array('PIN'    =>    $myPinNumber, 'Secret'    =>
> $sSecret);
> $sEncoded    = base64_encode(serialize($ary));
>
> Jeff Siegel
>
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