Encrypt/Decrypt in fP

[Mike Rathburn]

|On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:27:04 -0500, Mike Rathburn
|<mike at datadoit.com> wrote:
|
|> |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.
|
|	Can I assume that the field contains just numbers?
|If that is the case, how about running the number through
|BASE() and change it from base 10 to say base 36 and then
|back again at the other side?
|
|	If you have alphanumeric data, I wrote a base64/mime
|encryption subroutine in filePro. Throw me a bone and I'll
|share it with you.
|--
|Laura Brody, Publisher of the filePro Developer's Journal
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Yes!  That sounds like what I'm looking for.  Doesn't have to be 'real'
encryption (though would be nice).  Do you have a short sample of the
command for export and subsequent import?