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Hippo · Contributor Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

What level/type of encryption does the basic @encrypt function use? I know you can specify to use MD5 encryption but what about the basic function?

Thanks in Advance

Hippo

jules · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:

It's a fast, reversible, proprietary xor'ing type of encryption.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I would think the idea of this encryption is to provide the user with fast
and easy encryption that can be used to things that should be hidden to
the eyes but isn't extremely secret. For example, you can prevent tampering
with your registry settings by the average user by encrypting them with
this method.

However, I don't think you should use this encryption on high-security
documents.

jules · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:11 am Post subject:

I'd go along with that. I wrote a script to try to break the encryption of a document encrypted using this function, and it hadn't succeeded after several hours. But for stuff where security is important you should use a standard algorithm that has a mathematically proven level of difficulty to break the encryption, such as Blowfish.