[Fofredux-devel] password encryption

[Evan R. <eva...@gm...>]

me again.  short one this time...

what encryption do i choose?

i'm at the point of inserting user into db, and need to encrypt his
password, but i want to choose something that most users have, without extr=
a
configuration on their part.

options are:
1. simply crypt() which gives us DES, MD5 and blowfish, if i remember
correcly, but will only do basic 1 way encryption.
2. mcrypt() which gives us way more choices, but needs to be built into
php.  mine was there by default, so perhaps most of you have it?  this give=
s
a real module to work with, if we need to do further encryption.
3. adodb-lite?  do they offer something?  i know MySQL has native support
for encryption...but we can't use that...so without me opening the adodb
docs, anyone know if this is even an option?

i lean towards the first option, but as usual, a quick vote is normally the
best.  (and it's easy for me to pass off to the rest of you and go to
bed...=3D)

hopefully kevin will make some headway with the svn stuff...i've got a bit
to push upstream then, since the install function should be working with
this step complete.  (even though it's ugly and waiting on khaled or someon=
e
else to beautify it.)

/evan