On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 07:15, symbulos partners wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> thanks for the link to the dev manual page on encryption function.
>
> Which encryption is more secure (strongest)
> AES
> DES
> SHA
> ?
Are you using this for password storage or encrypting actual data?
If you are using it for passwords, I would suggest using SHA1 or MD5
since these are one-way hashing algorithims.
> I would have said AES, but after reading the manual chapters on DES,
> SHA I am not s(ec)ure any more.
>
> By the way, I did not understand if the bug
>
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=7846
>
> has been fixed.
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Tom Crimmins
Interface Specialist
Pottawattamie County, Iowa
