RE: A simple question since you guys really seem to be knowledgea ble

Walter Burton (wburton@pipestream.com)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:17:56 -0400

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Also check out http://www.pipestream.com/codelibrary/. This is IDEA in
a DLL. For gree, of course. I'm not sure if this is legal, but it
works great. Full source is provided.

\\/alter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor E. Luz [mailto:victorluz@inetd.pt]
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:07 AM
> To: Skylar Highe
> Cc: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: A simple question since you guys really seem to be
> knowledgeable
>
>
> Try :
>
> http://sevillaonline.com/ActiveX/
>
> Alvaro Redondo has a free activeX dll that implemnts RC2, RC4
> and DES56.
> This component also implements SHA-1 hash algorithm, base64
> encoding and
> HEX encoding.
>
> This library is quite simple to use in VB5/VB6.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Victor
>
> > Skylar Highe wrote:
> >
> > I have been lurking for months on the CodherPlunks list and I have a
> > question for you which probably is way beneath your
> expertise. I would
> > greatly appreciate some advice/help. I have been commissioned by my
> > employer to write a VB application and store the data in Access97
> > database. However, the employer would like me to encrypt the data to
> > make it fairly secure and worthless to anyone who might get
> a copy of
> > the database (of course not the CodherPlunks caliber of encryption
> > types).
> >
> > I don't know where I might find such a routine that would be
> > effective, show due diligence in protecting the data, and be able to
> > be accessed by a Visual basic program. Also don't know if I could
> > encrypt the complete record as a single "field" or encrypt the
> > individual fields. Any direction, help, advice, etc. would
> be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you very very much in advance.
> >
> > Skylar Highe
> >
>

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