[Tutor] what module to use for encrypt passwords????

[Allen]

I could use something like this, to. We use UBB for our forum and it uses
$crypt in PHP to handle passwords. Now we want to use the user information
in other areas of our site (data is in MySQL) to handle user logins.

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Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] what module to use for encrypt passwords????


> hello,
>
> there's the crypt module, but that's only for Unix...
>
> why not write your own encryption algorithm?  how secure does this
> have to be?
>
> brett
>
> M> I have to do a simple, not extremely secure GUI in tkinter requesting
> M> for users and their passwords. My question is what module should I use
> M> for encrypt passwords? it has to be a module availabe either in Windows
> M> Linux.
>
> M> Thanks,
>
>
> M> Max
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