[noorahmad]

hi guys there are loots of encryption function which one is the best i mean secure i am using [md5] and you?

[ShaneK]

I use the password warp function I made, which has recently been updated to use SHA512. SHA512 is supposed to be more secure because there's less room for collisions - after all, it's a 128 character string in the end.

By the way - technically speaking, this is hashing, not encrypting.

Yours,
Shane~

This post has been edited by ShaneK: 22 July 2009 - 07:51 AM

[KuroTsuto]

I'm using some custom steganographic functions that hash my data via a "passphrase" then embed it into a random Flickr photo....

BWAHA! Just messin with you. But that would be kinda sick... though highly impractical for most applications... But still sick

[Valek]

Heh, imagine the resources it'd take to check that password. My computer lags just thinking about it

[JackOfAllTrades]

To nip an misconception in the bud right away: md5 (as well as the SHA1 and its variants) is not a means of encryption, but a cryptograhic hashing algorithm.

[ShaneK]

Hey! I said that in my post! Well...kinda... Lol

Yours,
Shane~

[JackOfAllTrades]

You're right, you did. Sorry about that, I missed it.

[chtombleson]

I just use md5 has it meets my encryption requirements

[ShaneK]

chtombleson, on 3 Nov, 2009 - 05:39 PM, said:

I just use md5 has it meets my encryption requirements

If you read the rest of the thread you'll be able to tell that MD5 is not encryption, it's hashing. Encryption indicates that it can be undone.

Yours,
Shane~

This post has been edited by ShaneK: 03 November 2009 - 09:54 PM

[nightscream]

I think noorahmad(the topic starter) meant hashing instead of encrypting.
I most of the time use md5 with password and a hash(random key)

example
hash = 5(d (random)
password = test
passwordmd5 = md5(testhash);

in php(of course in this example the hash isn't being calculated randomly)

$hash = "5(d"; // (random)
$password = "test";
$passwordmd5 = md5($password.$hash);

This post has been edited by nightscream: 05 November 2009 - 09:06 AM