Encrypt/Decrypt in fP

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mike Rathburn propounded (on Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:27:04PM -0500):

| |Mike Rathburn wrote:
| |
| |> fP 5; Winderz
| |>
| |> I have a text field that needs to be encrypted during an export
| |> routine, then later decrypted during an import routine.  Does
| |> anyone know of a simple way to do this in fP on Windows?  Perhaps
| |> know of a third-party utility that the field value can be run
| |> through at export time?  The file that is created does not need
| |> encryption.  Just the data field.
| |
| |How secure does this encryption need to be?
|
| Just encrypted enough that any normal Joe can't look at a few of these
| and tell they're Tax ID's.  I can even expand all the way up to 32
| characters from 9.

Would squaring the number suffice?


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JP