On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:47 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Folks: > > If I wanted to encrypt a file in PHP and then write it out to disk > (one-way encryption, requiring a password), what PHP built-ins might you > recommend to encrypt the contents of the file before writing it out to > disk? > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > I don't think you want one-way encryption, that would mean you can't unencrypt it! What about the usual functions for encrypting strings in PHP? Couldn't you encrypt the file as a string and output that? Or did you want the file to request a password when it was opened? What about a password-protected compressed archive file? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk