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Marco van Herwaarden · #9 04-06-2005, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by JimpsEd

Hi - what is the use in this hack? I can only think.. to stop admins using the "Read Your Users PMs" hack, or people with access to the database reading people PMs.

But it uses Base64. This is not encryption. It is encoding - ANYONE can decrypt base64 things - base64_decode(message) in php, $base64(message.txt) in mIRC.

Correct, using a base64_encode is NOT encrypting message. It is just used to create a binairy safe representation of a string.

Anybody can decode it. This will not protect private message from being read. The only way you could protect private messages would be to first exchange a private key, then use that to encrypt your PM's with someone.

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