MD5 in BR

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Gabriel
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MD5 in BR

Post by Gabriel »

In case anyone is interested, I found an excellent command line md5 hash generator, and implemented a simple BR library wrapper function that makes it easy to get the md5 hash of any string from your BR code.

This is useful for keeping up with security standards especially as we more and more often are expanding our BR programs to the web.

Its never a good idea to pass the plain text of someones password over the internet. So instead, you pass the md5 hash over the internet and you compare this md5 hash to the saved md5 hash you have on file. Its useful when writing javascript web programs with a BR backend which require a secure login screen. (I can now run my BR based backoffice software on my Android, and it runs on an iPhone or Blackberry too.)

You'd know if you need it.
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