To "obscure" a string

[Mag]

I'm searching a way to "obscure" a string to store then in an external text file, just for privacy of the user purposes, don't need to be securely crypted. Any ideas to the best way to proceed to be able then to convert quickly back to original string?

[Simon]

For obscure only, base64Encode() is a good one, MD5Digest another.
But both of these can be decoded by many programmers.

You can write your own handler which only you know how to decode, makes it harder but not uncrackable.

Simon

[Mag]

Hi Simon, right what I was searching for. Thank you!

[Simon]

Hi Mag,
I remembered an article for this... Much cooler:
http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/ha ... s-005.html
Very hard to crack but not impossible.

Simon

[Mag]

Thank you so much!