how do I encrypt a field?

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richh
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Re: how do I encrypt a field?

Post by richh » Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:39 pm

Thank you for your input.. I definitely want to stick to the proper syntax... I guess in the beginning of learning the correct syntax that I feel like Godzilla stomping all over toyko :lol:

Moving forward, I have been keeping the dictionary open all the time on my right monitor.

I really do appreciate your responses to my various post as I get on board with how things are supposed to be done. :)
- Rich

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Re: how do I encrypt a field?

Post by Mark » Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:51 pm

Hi,

I was told to advertise my little, free password lib here and I thought I'd better obey ;-)

You can find it here halfway down the page.

A new version will probably be available soon, so make sure you can easily replace the password field in your stacks, if you use it.

Best,

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Re: how do I encrypt a field?

Post by SparkOut » Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:41 am

There are various password field handlers about, such as Mark's handy one - whichever way you tackle it, you should also check what happens if someone pastes into the password field and make sure that plain text isn't shown and/or breaks anything by having (for example) multi line input where there should be a fixed maximum length (if you are checking the entered data against a database record, perhaps).

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