Re: using crypt output as a primary key in a RDBMS

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 01/09/03 

From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 9 Jan 2003 01:47:45 GMT

ndescripto@yahoo.com (classical music) writes:

]unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote in message news:<avhnsk$t08$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>...

]> What you want is a genuine encryption. Eg, use des to encrypt the
]> number.
]>

]That's a good idea. Of course it's probably a bit more expensive than
]crypt but I can afford that.

Expensive? In what units? It is certainly imuch much faster (crypt was designed to
be slow), it is free in the sense of costing you no money to obtain or
use it.

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