autoit md5

[yucatan]

hello.

i am working on autoit to communicate with mysql.

but i dont wanne send usernames and password etc over internet as plain text.

i have done some reading about md5

and i found 4 topics in the helpfile of autoit

_Crypt_Startup

_Crypt_Shutdown

_Crypt_HashFile

_Crypt_HashData

and i found:

_StringEncrypt

_Crypt_DecryptData

_Crypt_DecryptFile

_Crypt_EncryptData

i'm new to md5 and to encryption.

i want my data to be send secure.

can somebody give me some advice about what md5 is.

what is the best way to encrypyt my data?

Greetz

Yucatan

[PsaltyDS]

First things first. Read up on the difference between encryption and hashing. MD5 is a hash algorithm (think of checksum rather than encoding), not and encryption algorithm.

[yucatan]

First things first. Read up on the difference between encryption and hashing. MD5 is a hash algorithm (think of checksum rather than encoding), not and encryption algorithm.

i have take a look.

i wanne encrypt not hash.

[KaFu]

Take a look at the examples in the UDF help-file for _Crypt_EncryptFile() & _Crypt_DecryptFile(). $CALG_AES_256 is a good algorithm to use for encryption, but remember, this is only 'save' as long as you don't embed the password into the script itself.

[AdmiralAlkex]

'save'

Safe?