Comments on: How to encrypt user info with php

By: noob1

noob1 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:26:59 +0000

How do I add this to a site I created using your member profile tutorial? Can you place give an example? Do I add the code to the sign up and login forms? Where do I put the code?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:42:18 +0000

Thanks!

So to use this with the profile tutorial on your website, I would add the above code to the signup and login pages?

By: Master Of Disaster

Master Of Disaster — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:07:22 +0000

Great Tut!

when are you guys gonna add more tutorials to this site?

By: Rekkx

Rekkx — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Another issue you may want to consider is the effectiveness of MD5 as a hash function.

It’s recently been proven that MD5 can have ‘collisions’ and as such, should not be used to hash sensitive data. It’s a small, but significant security threat.

I recommend using the tried and tested SHA-1 hash which is far, far less likely to have any collisions. It’s been proved mathematically that SHA-1 can have collisions but as yet, no viable way of finding them has been publicly issued.

By: Unreal Media

Unreal Media — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:14:10 +0000

Nice tutorial, ill give it a go.

By: CristianDeluxe

CristianDeluxe — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:29:38 +0000

Sorry for my bad English.

Good post. Greetings from Spain.

#3 If you need to change the nick you can regenerate the hash and save it again to database it’s easy!.

Other option is have a string saved in your “settings.php” file and use it for generate the hash.

By: Vahur

Vahur — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:32:14 +0000

Salt is a good idea, but i also would not use username for it.

By: vishlal parmar

vishlal parmar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:59:46 +0000

a good tutorial for the novice learner like me

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