UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat need help from UBBDev Moderators :)

Uh, so the point of the password encryption is...? Anyone who has access to your memberfiles is almost certainly going to have access to your scripts, and hence the decryption algorythm. Encryption in cookies is something we've thought about before, but was deemed pointless because you can enter a password, and see how it looks encrypted in your cookies... given time, a hacker will be able to work out the cypher, and decode anybody elses' cookies he gets ahold of, thus defeating the original point of the encoding.

Actually, all that seems different is the filenames, and the fact that you've renamed "action" to "a" and number to "n"... and there are a few more characters in your file names (000000000001.html vs 000001.html). The username and passwords have the SAME limits as UBBs... some things look suspisciously like they're Ultra Board-inspired too, if you don't mind me saying so. The cookies are stored in the smae way as UBs, the directory structure is IDENTICAL to UBB for the icons and boards... I'm afraid I'm going to contest your claim that you programmed the whole thing from scratch.

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This message has been edited by Borg_5x8 on November 26, 2000 at 11:22 AM