http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T09:34:22 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#37119 I have to agree with Ike23, it's much clearer this way, without all of the <cfif>s etc. that one might otherwise include. It answered my question straight away too. paulfeakins 0 0 2005-07-08T10:31:54 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#27280 the code example is using FORM.password which would not be passed via URL because it would be prefixed URL.password. 0 0 2005-01-31T06:21:57 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#26981 In the example, there is no CF_SQL_CHARVAR type for CFQUERYPARAM - it should be CF_SQL_VARCHAR<br /><br />unless CF_SQL_CHARVAR is an undocumented type? pete_freitag 0 0 2005-01-25T12:16:25 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#21764 The point of hash() isn't uniqueness. Use CreateUUID() for that. From my understanding of MD5 encryption, every time you enter the same value, you will get the same result, but every unique value entered would necessarily have a unique result. KiraganJeff 0 0 2004-09-27T12:01:28 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#21206 Is hash() 100% unique? webdev101 0 0 2004-09-10T11:24:56 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#21201 The coldfusion Hash function is an implementation of MD5 per the link below. MD5 is a one way hash function so you can't go bacwards.<br /><br />http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/server_archive/articles/understanding_encrypt.html#999931 oneishy_ 0 0 2004-09-10T10:02:41 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#21190 Can the hexadecimal code be converted back to string, by any method? deepu_verma 0 0 2004-09-10T00:20:32 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#20947 I actually like the fact that the code was simple and straight to the point. All I want to know is how to use the Hash() function to secure my passwords. This artilce answered my question perfectly. I'm glad I didn't have to read through a bunch of <cfif query.recordcount> code... Ike23 0 0 2004-09-03T14:11:03 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct113.htm#14915 This example is extremely bad coding!<br />In the comment it is said that ' assumes that UserID value is passed to this page with a URL parameter', so why don't you scope it then Maybe check for the existence of it?!<br />Then, second: you are querying a table, and assume we've got results back... <br />A check for recordcount would be quite handy, would it not?<br />I can understand you don't want to make your examples too complicated, but this is just plain worthless. frinky!!! 0 0 2004-05-17T06:05:51