Re: Cross platform password string encryption


Tom St Denis wrote:
First, my post was mostly just to disuade the OP from using "la langue
preference de jour."

According to the TIOBE index the currently preferred language would be
Java: http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index

More seriously, I don't think you can find many Delphi programmers who
use it because they fallen for the hype. To the contrary, most of them
have probably been using it for many years and do it despite everyone
around them try to get them to use C#/Java/VB/C++ instead.


Second, nobody in their right mind should use
standalone ciphers/hashes/etc in their application unless they're
really in a bind.

That was never the question, but since you mention it, I got an entire
cryptographic library with a consistent API too. It is not the only one
for Delphi.


You need more than a cipher to make a
cryptosystem and a patchwork assembly of random code "found on the
Internet" is a good way of not writing solid code.

Absolutely.

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