[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Was just wondering if anyone here could help me. I want to encode (and > subsequently decode) email addresses to use in URLs. I believe that > this can be done using MD5.
Are you by chance after a way to create URLs that contain an email which the server then can extract from them, and this to be tamperproof? There are several ways to accomplish this - your MD5-suggestion is applyable when working with a simple secret and by creating an additional parameter. If you e.g. want an url like this to be secure http://some.server/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you use a secret, and hash the parameters together with the secret using MD5. The result is then something like http://some.server/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&key=<md5sum> Then in the server, you perform the same step as above, without the key of course, and simply check if the MD5-sums are equal. Anything else requires the use of a encryption algorithm like blowfish or whatnot, either symetric or public key - I'm not an expert on that though. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
