Hi there,



Just want to share something with you...



A lot of ASP-applications work with login.

For those of you who arent so lucky to work with chili!ASP and MySQL,

i have an URL for a MD5 - component in VB or ASP.



http://www.frez.co.uk/freecode.htm#md5

http://www.frez.co.uk/MD5.zip



For the people who don't know MD5:

It's a Hash/checksum algorithm... It means that it converts a string into

some unreadable code, which CANNOT be decrypted !

Therefor, if you ask a password, you first have to encrypt it, and then

compare

with the stored (encrypted !) password in your DB.

The result of the MD5-encryption is always a 32-chars value.



The one big advantage of MD5 is, that even when someone can take a look at

your database,

he still don't know the passwords of the different users.

Your customers will appreciate it, because a lot of people use only a few

passwords

for all their computer-related security.





I hope this is a usefull contribution :-)





Greetz,



Steven