[plt-scheme] encryption?

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Sun Dec 15 16:36:51 EST 2002

Doug Orleans wrote:
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> Has anyone written any encryption code for PLT Scheme?  I couldn't
> find anything in MzScheme, MzLib, or any of the contrib packages.  I'd
> be happy with just some bindings to libc's crypt() function.  I need
> to do some web account management and I don't want to store passwords
> in plaintext.

Then you will be better off using a hash function. Like md5 :-)

    http://www.scheme.dk/md5/

Remember to use the PLT functions for arithmetic - the speed gain is
substantial.

--
Jens Axel Søgaard




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