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chrisaiv on 10/21/07

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Encrypting / Decrypting Passwords using EzCrypto

Published in: Ruby

First things First you need to install this ruby gem user$ sudo gem install ezcrypto

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#1. Encryption
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#A. Import the Libraries
require 'rubygems'
require 'ezcrypto'
 
#B. Create AES 128-bit Key
# => 1. Make a strong alpha-numeric password longer then 8-bytes
# => 2. Create a Salt or two-form hash
@key = EzCrypto::Key.with_password("alph@_num3r1c", "salted hash")
 
#C. Encrypt the Data
@encrypted = @key.encrypt "$up3r_p@$$w0rd"
 
puts "This is your encrypted data \n" + @encrypted
 
############################
#2. Decryption
############################
#A. Establish the Key like you did in Step A above
 
#B. Decrypt the Original Message
@decrypted = @key.decrypt @encrypted
 
puts "This is the decrypted original data \n" + @decrypted

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Posted By: chetan on November 1, 2007

hello friend

i used ezcrpto for password generation in my rails app , and its not get stored in mysql db giving charset error

here is the error

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Mysql::Error: Illegal mix of collations (latin1swedishci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8generalci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=': SELECT * FROM users WHERE (users.status = 'active' AND users.password = '/s&µ^õÍZ&Ó£ÿà' AND users.email = 'kumar.bakal@betterlabs.net') LIMIT 1):

thanks in advance reguard chetanM

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