Encryption request

[Ramin Firoozye]

>
> Yes, in 2.0 we will have own plugin system.
>
> As plugins will be:
>     importer / exporter
>     encryption
>     indexes
>     Languages for BaseObject methods (Phyton, Java)
>     may be fields.
>
> API will be similar to COM,
> IUnknwon interface, and other interface classes.
>
> You need simply make subsclass for some interface and implement it.
>

Excellent! That would work.

>
> I have see that mySQL have MD5 like function which can be used in
> BaseObject methods and other expresions. Most probably we also will have
it.
>
> Right now I have add Encode/Decode functions based on Blowfish.
> Where MD5 is better ?
>

The main use for MD5 would be to quickly calculate a hash-value and verify
that a data source or structure  hasn't been modified. Another use could be
as a quick-check to compare two large data fields for inequality.

R-